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Quotes About Misinformation

If truth is the first victim of war, then read on - I've got some great lies for you this month.
~ Alan Gorrie
I ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit.
~ Al Franken
Some parents are ambivalent about vaccination after reading misinformed pieces and watching misleading videos on a popular mobile chat application. By electing to avoid vaccinating their child, they are denying their child's right to be protected against these severe diseases.
~ Shabana Azmi
Misinformation about rattlesnakes is a leitmotiv of the insomniac imagination in Los Angeles.
~ Joan Didion
I remember all of the day's misinformation very clearly, and I also remember this, and wish I did not: I remember that no one was surprised.
~ Joan Didion
Rumors multiplied like bacteria. One
~ Vincent Bugliosi
The problem with quotes on the Internet is that people immediately believe in their authenticity.
~ Vladimir Lenin
The news of my death is greatly exaggerated.
~ W.C. Fields
The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.
~ Edward R. Murrow
Sometimes my dad even gets on this kick--'You hate this country'....I have to tell him...I just hate being lied to.
~ Bill Hicks
Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught falsehoods in school. And the person that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool
~ Plato
You have to understand they're operating from a place of fear, like Fox News viewers.
~ Rachel Cohn
The news is notoriously inaccurate, and our memory of it is even worse.
~ Ryan Holiday
Janta mass fooling day
~ Unknown
There is no rest stop on the misinformation highway.
~ Dahlia Lithwick
A scholar as authoritative as Richard Rhodes97 was still writing in 1995 that the Soviets had over forty ICBMs in 1961, ten times more than they actually had.
~ Daniel Ellsberg
As long as anger, paranoia and misinformation drive our political debate, there are unhinged souls among us who will feel justified in turning to violent remedies for imagined threats.
~ David Horsey
Sensationalism only works for so long. Think of something like the Kony 2012 campaign. Its sensationalized, viral language got people all hot and bothered, but at the end of the day, there was so much it got wrong about the situation, and that did more damage to their cause than what they got right.
~ Uzodinma Iweala
Misinformation is a virus unto itself. And Fox News is the vector.
~ Brianna Keilar
If the great body of the people have clamored for our comrades' blood, it was because they believed what the lying monopolistic press has said.
~ Unknown
There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.
~ Anne Campbell
Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge
Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.
~ Ryan White
I keep reading between the lies.
~ Goodman Ace