Quotes About Misinformation

And, after speech, it provided a readier instrument for the dissemination of nonsense than the world has ever known until our time.

Conspiracy theory's got to be simple. Sense doesn't come into it. People are more scared of how complicated shit actually is than they ever are about whatever's supposed to be behind the conspiracy.

Conspiracy theory's got to be simple. Sense doesn't come into it. People are more scared of how complicated shit actually is than they ever are about whatever's supposed to be behind the conspiracy.

despite one's inherent distrust of what one learned from Nazi sources, a steady diet over the years of falsifications and distortions made a certain impression on one's mind and often misled it. No one who has not lived for years in a totalitarian land can possibly conceive how difficult it is to escape the dread consequences of a regime's calculated and incessant propaganda.

You leave a rumor long enough, give it the right soil, and it'll grow into a fact . . .

Counter-knowledge covers the propagation of false legends and conspiracy theories often used for political purposes or fundamentalist religious propaganda.

Vaccine conspiracies, like so much modern cult conspiracy culture, perpetuates itself and lives on indefinitely thanks to the community-building and archiving of the Internet.

Misinformation or distrust of vaccines can be like a contagion that can spread as fast as measles.

If you Google some sites about the link between vaccines and autism, you can very quickly find that Google is repeating back to you your view about whether that link exists and not what scientists know, which is that there isn't a link between vaccines and autism. It's a feedback loop that's invisible.

Because the more you engage with someone who is spreading untruths, the more validity you give to those untruths.

It doesn't seem to matter how often vaccines are proved safe or supplements are shown to offer nothing of value. When people don't like facts, they ignore them.

We all agree on the core values of a free and open Internet. We simply may disagree on the appropriate regulatory framework for securing those values. And I would much rather have an open and honest debate about the appropriate regulatory framework as opposed to throwing misinformation out there to achieve political ends.

A surfeit of information often hides an untruth," he said, with annoying clarity.

The corollary to the notion that any rumor is at least half true, is that any half-truth, repeated often enough, becomes entirely true.

I'm not a fan of Fox News. They do more to pervert the truth in this country than most organizations that I know of.

False news hurts everyone. It hurts our community; it hurts us as individuals.

The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.

The picture says that what we heard and were told in the newspapers, the media, was not the real story. There's enough doubt in the official story, where the stories were absolutely not consistent with what happened. They paint a different picture than the one that was given to the media.

The other half are blissfully unaware that the reality is stranger than science fiction, and that they have been consistently misinformed and lied to by a government that has engineered one of the most successful cover-ups in history.

nothing is more indicative of a war going badly than valiant propaganda ... Anything officially denied was probably a fact.

The plain people were busy getting their daily bread. They had no time to listen to all the frantic pleadings and protests which arose. One tale was good until another was told, and probably both were untrue and certainly very difficult to understand.

Repetition of false teachings does not make them true.

There's all sorts of rumors... there's so many variables there. And I've learned with AC/DC also not to believe the rumors, because even fans fake things.

The Internet has turned the world into one gigantic linked community, capable of instantly sharing vast amounts of incorrect information.