Quotes About Misinformation

Fake news has emerged a new menace, whose purveyors proclaim themselves as journalists and taint this noble profession.

I feel like the Internet needs to be disarmed in some way. There needs to be a philosophical undermining of the Internet. We take it too seriously and too literally. For a reference we go to Wikipedia, which is full of inaccuracies and misinformation. It's kind of beautiful - it's all the product of imagination; it's not reality at all.

Wikipedia gets a lot of things wrong.

When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.

The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do this? By quoting some 'expert'... you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.

There are a lot of people whose livelihoods depend on keeping lots of conservatives terrified and ill-informed. The groups that exist to raise funds raise more funds when they endorse the crazier candidate.

I remember my first friend who got sick. It was 1981, and the disease was called the gay cancer. I don't think the word 'AIDS' came out until '84. I just remember it being terrifying as more people got sick. We didn't know how you could catch it, you heard all kinds of crazy things.

admit that I only know what I read in the newspapers or see on the television. But that is the only information most of us have to go on. If it is incorrect or biased or even downright lies, how can we be expected to know?

American psychiatry has told the public a false story over the past thirty years.

If one person tells a lie and ten people hear it and pass it on, does it make it true?

Being ignorant is truly bliss compared to being misinformed, especially if you're aware of the depths of your own ignorance.

FOX said the Dragon had been set loose by ISIS, using spores that had been invented by the Russians in the 1980s. MSNBC said sources indicated the 'scale might've been created by engineers at Halliburton and stolen by culty Christian types fixated on the Book of Revelation. CNN reported both sides.

It's like Sheriff Daniels sneezed, and they all caught the misinformation flu.

A lie can go around the world twice before the truth gets its socks on.

We have been systematically misinformed about what depression and anxiety are.

Social and political life is a Society for the Diffusion of Mendacity .

Actual life is full of false clues and sign-posts that lead nowhere.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

A groundless rumor often covers a lot of ground.

Rumours and malicious gossip are like bindweed. They cannot be cut back, even with the sword of truth.

The papers, you know, they're always gonna just make stuff up. They think it's in the public interest.

The foreign policy of the United States rests entirely on propagandistic lies.

People who watch a lot of Fox come away knowing a lot less about important world events.

A lie often told enough will eventually be accepted as truth. - Acsah