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It has to be a willful misrepresentation or concealment of a material fact that affects one's eligibility to become a citizen.
Here is the relevant section of the Department of Homeland Security Policy Manual:
Yes, but what is willful misrepresentation/concealment of a requested material fact isn't necessarily judged as being the same for everyone by everyone -- it varies based on the eyes of the beholders. It has been used as leverage to make targets into "informants"/"assets"/"entrapment bait" or to get targets to plead guilty (rather than fight it out in court all the way to a jury verdict) in an effort to try to protect their (i.e., the target's) loved ones from the government-threatened removal over alleged willful misrepresentation or concealment of material facts on their loved one's/ones' immigration and naturalization documents.
Governments are no saints, and sometimes that kind of anti-saint-like extreme extrajudicial pressure alienates people enough to set them on a course to become a monster of sorts.