Presenting fabricated or cherry-picked evidence might have the best odds of persuading someone of something true, and so you could argue that doing so “maximizes the truth of the belief” they get, but that doesn’t make it honest.
Presenting fabricated or cherry-picked evidence might have the best odds of persuading someone of something true, and so you could argue that doing so “maximizes the truth of the belief” they get, but that doesn’t make it honest.