Quotes About Misinformation

I know that if enough people shout a falsehood, people start to think it's true and a lot of people don't do independent verification of everything they hear.

I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.

Every time there's an incident, there's a barrage of misinformation, and suddenly some asshole from my high school who dropped out of junior college considers himself a constitutional scholar.

Per Mother Jones, "Nearly 70 percent of American adults say they get some of their news via social media."134 That equals a metric shit ton of misinformation being disseminated every second, which means a metric shit ton of livid tweets and comments and angry-face emojis in response.

Nearly 70 percent of American adults say they get some of their news via social media."134 That equals a metric shit ton of misinformation being disseminated every second, which means a metric shit ton of livid tweets and comments and angry-face emojis in response.

The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops that we have created are destroying how society works—no civil discourse, no cooperation, misinformation, mistruth. —Chamath Palihapitiya, former Facebook VP of user growth

There is a reductive nature to the Internet, and it's not limited to comic book news sites and stuff: it's everybody. There is a reductive nature of it, by which anything that's said very quickly gets reduced down to the next. Reduced, reduced, reduced to the point where rumors with some sense of nuance to them just become fact.

Don't read, click links or subscribe to any media organisations that peddle sinister untruths and stereotypes.

Fools believe the viral news

Women today not only possess genetic memory of birth from a thousand generations of women, but they are also assailed from every direction by information and misinformation about birth.

The news is disease in disguise pretending to be information.

I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.

Oh, and I heard a rumor that I died in a car accident. I didn't.

If something is repeated over and over as obvious, the chances are that it is obviously false.

The greater the lie, the greater the chance that it will be believed.

The bigger the lie, apparently, the more likely the uninformed were to accept it

Some people believe that too much information is a dangerous thing, but it is only this idea that is dangerous.

In that atmosphere, false information flourishes; and subjects in tests are "eager to listen to and believe any sort of preposterous nonsense."16

In modern democracies, press freedom was being used as a cloak to shield media conglomerates' domination of public discussion 'in which misinformation may be peddled uncorrected and in which reputations may be selectively shredded or magnified. A free press is not an unconditional good.' When the media mislead, she added, 'the wells of public discourse and public life are poisoned'. Dr Onora O'Neill

And there are many people, both Moslem and Christian, who have a good grasp of each others0 conceptions of surrender to God an other principles. But the widespread existence of bias, misinformation and lack of knowledge (…) militate against the effectiveness of dialogue, (…) by the most subtle and one of the most effective of instruments, the subconscious, almost the subliminal, introduction of hostility.

People seem to be awfully gullible. They'll believe anything. ~in The NPR Interviews, 1996, edited by Robert Siegel

The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.

And if you remember the other part of the context is we were then all deceived about the French position and told the French had said they'd veto any second resolution - which wasn't true, we now know.

Lies and distortions can be spread, via the Internet, in an inexpensive way, and the effects are astounding.