Quotes About Misinformation

Anybody can write anything they want these days with social media, blogging, etc.

There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.

Goodreads could be a source for knowledge but instead does all readers a supreme disservice by allowing the spread of false quotes on the Internet.

Afraid of the word "politics" (which eventually became a synonym for Communism

Gossip - invented to injure feelings rather than illuminate the truth.

People will believe a big lie sooner than a little one, and if you repeat it frequently enough, people will sooner or later believe it.

people and firms reward the providers of dangerously misleading information more than they reward truth tellers.

She also believed that Denmark needed to expel its Muslim minority, that the Covid vaccine was lethal, that global warming was a hoax, that homosexuality was a lifestyle choice, and that a cabal of blood-drinking liberal pedophiles controlled the global financial system, Hollywood, and the media.

What happened at the end of our last story is something called misdirection. It's what happens when you are led to believe that something is true, but in reality it's not true at all. Misdirection happens a lot in real life- especially in politics, history, education, medicine, marketing, science, religion, and the Oprah Winfrey Network.

The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.

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

Even the most sketchily educated and ill-informed youngster had at his or her fingertips facts that had to contradict, in all kinds of ways, obvious and implicit, the propagandas which afflicted them.

Virtually everything we were told in Indonesia turned out not to be true, sometimes almost immediately. The only exception to this was when we were told that something would happen immediately, in which case it turned out not to be true over an extended period of time.

The theology of this seemed a little confused, reflected Dirk, but what was one tiny extra droplet of misinformation in such a raging torrent?

Scientific facts are few and far between, popular facts are commonplace and not usually facts at all.

When people don't have access to facts, they invent what they'd like to believe, or what they think others would like to hear.

Esso has been the main one in America spreading the disinformation that there is no global warming problem.

To far too many, science is a four-letter word, and under the modern media's false equivalency standards, a handful of skeptics are viewed as counterweights to the vast majority of scientists who acknowledge mankind's proven role in global warming.

Over a hundred million Americans reject the findings of the Warren Commission, whose report at least ninety-nine out of a hundred have never read.

Bootlicking mainstream media is spreading wrong picture of the farmers protest and the foolish viewers are accepting it.

He who used to create fake news is talking on Anti-Hindus topic and the fools are applauding him.

In campaigns, lots of things will be said, and what they have said about my husband is just simply not true.

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.

In the absence of clear knowledge, rumours have abounded and lies have been invented and believed.