Quotes About Misinformation

In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.

The thought that so many people get their news from social media really is scary.

There's a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don't have to think, you just have to get more information - gets very dangerous.

Internet does not equal sodium pentothal.

The truth is, a large majority of the market, I'd guess 80 percent, doesn't know anything more than what they are sold.

And $18 million in three Japanese banks, completely false. That I have two factories in Panama, also completely false. This is part of the counter campaign of some people.

Some people are probably scratching their heads and saying, How did that happen? That's because some of the media didn't give the public the full story.

You think you had it bad when somebody put out a rumor on you in the school; think about somebody putting a rumor out about you on the Internet.

conceiving the reader as conversing with the author, as talking back. After he has said, "I understand but I disagree," he can make the following remarks to the author: (1) "You are uninformed"; (2) "You are misinformed"; (3) "You are illogical—your reasoning is not cogent"; (4) "Your analysis is incomplete.

You can't debunk memes with facts. It's like bringing tap-shoes to a gunfight.

A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information.

The Internet is at once a gold mine of solid content and a hellhole of misinformation.

the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

But the overwhelming number of mothers who think they have too little milk have babies who are taking plenty of milk and are gaining weight well. These mothers have based their conclusions on misinformation or a misinterpretation of their babies' behavior.

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A market is the combined behavior of thousands of people responding to information, misinformation and whim.

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.

The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.

The problem was that the American media and public could never distinguish between the lie and the truth.

In the highly classified manual of dezinformatsiya that codified my life within the Soviet intelligence community, it was proclaimed on the first page, all in upper case letters: "IF YOU ARE GOOD AT DISINFORMATION, YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH ANYTHING.

porque el alcohol se acompañaba con dosis masivas de aspirinas. se creía que mataba el virus.

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

The Age of Information, Has turned out to be the Age of Ignorance.