Quotes About Misinformation

Anyone that tells you what does or what doesn't cause autism is simply not basing that on facts.

spread the rumor and, before anyone knows, it's a fact

Brandolini's law, developed in the context of twenty-first social media, is equally applicable to 1920s Klan-speak: 'The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude greater than that needed to produce it.

The Times reports I've made £4.5 million in the last year (from my Star Wars income). Where do they get such nonsense?

The biggest liar in the world is They Say.

Always at the hands of people who range from the semi-informed to the uninformed.

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the failures of American (and of course many other) institutions. But it has also shown us something interesting: although Silicon Valley companies have for years only wrung their hands as calls for genocide, death threats, and misinformation have proliferated globally on their platforms, now, in the face of widespread disease and death in the United States, they suddenly found the will to moderate certain expression.

The biggest liar in the world is They Say,'" I muttered. "Douglas Malloch.

Most Americans get their news from corporate-controlled media. At the same time, right-wing interests and ideologues are buying up the major newspapers, radio and television stations across the country which people have looked to over the years for balanced reporting. Now too often, they find misinformation, outright deception and the fomenting of false fears in once-trusted media. Such manipulation of the news keeps people ignorant and confused about what's really going on.

Amazing the rubbish idiots will believe if you shout it loudly enough.

I love the Internet, or at least I used to, but it's not where you go for the truth.

Some too, would make mention of the actual word 'rumour', as in 'Rumour says', before going on to personify rumour, as if it wasn't they who were launching or perpetuating Rumour themselves.

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.

Half-baked truth is dangerous - be it the propaganda of media or somebody else.

Russia has always been involved in propaganda and disinformation.

Incomprehensible messaging is a very important part of Russian propaganda.

You know, plenty of people headed off to Canada or America on the basis of government information, propaganda campaigns. Often you'd go off with a brochure in hand and you'd turn up and it wouldn't be like that at all.

Those who argue for Brexit are wrong, and that is because they have not been properly informed about the costs.

As soon as you hear a proposition, the creative brain in humans assumes for the moment that it's true, and starts trying to find evidence. It's what computer scientists in the old days used to call 'Fifo:' first in, first out. The first piece of information that gets in has a privileged position, even if it's misinformation.

In the era of President Trump, we've gone from believing things that are 'true enough' to believing things that aren't true at all, and can be demonstrably proven so.

You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.

When people are making up stories about Bob Mueller on Fox News and those get traction in congressional committees and in the White House, at a certain point, I've got to say no.

People must not believe in rumours. Even those who are spreading rumours and fake news must realize that they are not only disturbing others, but also putting their own lives at risk.