Blatant Lies: When Virgil is pretending to be Cave Johnson.Oh, and with AEGIS gone, GLaDOS is going to come back on-line in the future.
An Alternate History is also suggested by Virgil assuring Mel that ' Adlai Stevenson is still President' (in real life, Adlai Stevenson was a candidate more than once, but never became President) though this could equally be explained as Virgil getting his facts wrong.
One of the developers admitted their mistake and suggested that it took place in an Alternate History.
This comes in handy during the final level.