single word requests - Verb: "to make an incorrect statement"

You could, perhaps, misspeak, but that has more an idea of "accidentally stating incorrectly or inappropriately", like if you use the name of the person you are addressing in place of the person you're supposed to be speaking about.

Either misstate or misreport, on the other hand, appears to be more appropriate.

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