Quotes About Misinformation

People without good education are also more prone to believe in conspiracy theories.

We live in such a gullible world. Anything that's written, anything that's posted, anything picture that is interpreted one way is taken as truth.

People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it's right. Rumor gets printed as fact. We may have lost our critical facility as a nation.

What I believe is that a lot of the NSA's telephone metadata program is the result of misinformation spread by a traitor, Edward Snowden.

Sometimes quotes you find on the internet are fake.

I do believe that is a template that I stick very strongly to to tell the truth in an increasing swelter of lies and misinformation and disinformation.

It's been very interesting. We've seen a lot of interesting testimony. We've seen a lot of interesting people, a lot of allegations, a lot of lies, a lot of misinformation and some truth.

Tea-baggers love the truth. They just hate facts.

We live at a time when emotions and feelings count more than truth, and there is a vast ignorance of science

The opposite of what is noised about concerning men and things is often the truth. [Fr., Le contraire des bruits qui courent des affaires ou des personnes est souvent la verite.]

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear.

Disinformation is duping. Misinformation is tricking.

False fears are a plague, a modern plague!

The irony of the Information Age is that it has given new respectability to uninformed opinion.

Los seres humanos acumulan información errónea, así que es difícil saber a quién creerle. Entiendo cómo te sientes.

Es un hecho —afirmó Sarah—. Los seres humanos acumulan información errónea, así que es difícil saber a quién creer.

There is a lot of pseudo-science and nonsense out there on the Internet, and everyone feels the need to send it to me. And I'm sitting there thinking, 'It isn't real! Stop it!'

A striking marker of just how confused nutrition advice can be was a finding by an advisory committee for the American Heart Association that 37 percent of American nutritionists rate coconut oil—which is essentially nothing but saturated fat in liquid form—as a "healthy food." Coconut oil may be tasty, but it is no better for you than a big scoop of deep-fried butter.

That is the problem with rumors," said Avin Brone. "It is very hard to prove that things are not true—much more difficult than proving they are.

Todd did a double take: "Wait a minute—Alternative facts? … Four of the five facts he uttered were just not true. Look, alternative facts are not facts. They're falsehoods.

A dismal demon who was mostly mouth, he was ready at a moment's notice to offer misinformation on any subject. And, while he often tumbled heavily, it was never he who was hurt, but, rather, the unfortunate person on whom he fell.

Sixty-nine percent of Americans believed that Saddam Hussein was personally responsible for 9/11 when we invaded Iraq. That is the biggest failure of the media I have ever seen.

Saddam Hussein and people like him were very much involved in 9/11.