Quotes About Misinformation

It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.

It was the tiniest scrap of misinformation, insignificant really. But. . . . That was not the story at all.

There is so much unreliable information on the internet and in the media.

If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.

There have been so many things written about me that are untrue and horrifying.

When you read Western press, you probably get a feeling that all Russian press is censored, there's no freedom at all, we can't say whatever, which is absolutely, absolutely, completely untrue.

The news of me giving a Rolls Royce to Salman is completely untrue. If anyone should be giving Rolls Royce then he should be giving to me.

I have to say, I have never watched 'Infowars.' I know that they say zany things that are patently untrue. But I also think that MSNBC says zany things that are patently untrue.

Strip away the factual misinformation repeatedly peddled about the Human Rights Act and almost everyone acknowledges that it works well in practice. Police up and down the country have found the Human Rights Act a much clearer and firmer basis for practical policing than the common law ever was.

How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!

I can understand pulling a book whose contents have been questioned - after all, false information has a way of sticking in your brain and seeming true when you go to retrieve it years later.

The Internet is a strange, strange place that is full of lies. I would say mostly lies.

Americans who know nothing of Andropov may be nonetheless familiar with aspects of the work of Service A—as is anyone who has ever heard that the CIA killed President Kennedy, or that the FBI assassinated Martin Luther King, or that the army invented the AIDS virus in a germ-warfare lab, all falsehoods broadcast and published and perpetuated by Andropov's officers and agents.

As President Bush made the case for a wider war against Iraq in his State of the Union address on January 28, 2003, he called the six men in Lackawanna an al-Qaeda cell. The FBI would conclude that this was not true.

Like Hitler, the president used the word lies to mean statements of fact not to his liking, and presented journalism as a campaign against himself. The president was on friendlier terms with the internet, his source for erroneous information that he passed on to millions of people.

We do not see the minds that we hurt when we publish falsehoods, but that does not mean we do no harm.

And an even bigger army of Catholic missionaries marched in on your heels and told the Africans that if they used the condoms, they'd all go to hell. Africa has a new environmental issue now—landfills overflowing with unused condoms.

And more recently, the world had been led to believe that weapons of mass destruction existed in Iraq.

Faction is a dangerous thing—presenting readers, viewers, and listeners with a fictitious account and making them think that it is true.

Change comes with both fear and some pain. Those two ingredients create mistrust, misunderstanding and misinformation. Such is the process of democracy.

The irony of the information age is that it lends credibility to uninformed opinion.

We're taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don't have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.

Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening than the Dark Ages could muster in a decade.

I've never seen this level of anger at parents who've chosen not to vaccinate their children.