So far every review I have read about the Pixel's portrait mode has said two things: That the single lens camera really can replace the dual lens cameras and that the effect is equal to or better than portrait mode offered by dual lens arrangements from other vendors including Apple.

Yet, in the same review each have shown photos of Pixel's portrait mode with large blurring errors such as far away details being sharp while closer less textural objects being blurred heavily. Leading to inconsistent and counter-intuitive images that frankly look like bad photoshop jobs. These are definitely not 'better', rather they look unusable, entirely broken.

More concerning is that many of these reviewers have taken to cropping out the broken sections to reinforce their point or when conducting polls.

To be more specific, let's highlight the verge. Their review demonstrates very clearly who is paying to keep their doors open, publishing a gushing review despite these obvious flaws. Flaws that are present in their own demo images. In which case one must ask - how much are they lying in the rest of the review? There is so much that we take on the basis of trust in a review, yet here we see glaringly obvious lies. (And what about the images that the reviewer chose not to publish.)

Does this industry really have that little credibility? Plainly stating a glaringly obvious falsehood is the realm of 'fake news'.