Yes, for sure.
I'm thinking here of situations where politicians make comments and add a lengthy preamble to the various issues, including bias, attacks and criticism of an individual or their personality, for example. In this context, they're not discussing political issues, but rather engaging in a battle of personalities by stating half-truths or partial truths. It's the principle of negative political communication. The information is never completely false, but it's used out of context.
Perhaps we should think about a way of naming things, create a code of conduct for the National Assembly of Quebec, the House of Commons or elsewhere, that would encourage people to address people's projects or ideas and their viability rather than engaging in personal attacks. This would keep people from spreading half-truths and falsely or negatively conveying information.