It is the press, above all, which wages a positively fanatical and slanderous struggle, tearing down everything which can be regarded as a support of national independence, cultural elevation, and the economic independence of the nation.
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Quotes tagged ‘Fake News’
We have a president who doesn’t care about the facts. That’s new and very dangerous. Shocking, I would say.
[Trump] has an appalling record for using lies or near lies to draw outrageous conclusions and that’s what he did there. We can’t accept that. This nation has to be based on truth and facts. And our public officers have got to be measured against a standard of what’s necessary for a healthy America.
We’ve got our friends at CNN here. Welcome guys, it’s great to have you. You guys love breaking news, and you did it, you broke it! Good work!
Fake news, the Russia misinformation scandal, and all of these issues that are at the top of the Zeitgeist at the moment are all symptoms of a fundamental problem that information moves too fast and at too large a scale for us to be able to reliably parse it and understand the world as human beings.
People think of fake news as politically motivated, and a lot of it is, but even more of it is economically motivated.
There are three big categories of fake news. There’s a group of people who are like spammers. The second category is state actors. That’s basically the Russian interference effort. Then there’s the third category, which is the most nuanced, which are basically real media outlets [...]
Half of writing history is hiding the truth.
Where did so many people originally get the idea that Trump was the right guy to fix our manifestly broken government? Not from Russian bots or targeted social media ad buys, but from a prime-time show that sold itself as real, and sold him as a business genius.
The thing about interviews is, the reporter asks you a question and you answer yes or no, and then in the paper it looks like you brought up the subject.
We in America pride ourselves on freedom of the press, but every day I see, and so do you, this kind of dishonesty and distortion not only in this area but in reporting—about guys like me, for instance, which is of minor importance except to me; but also in reporting world news. How can a free peopl…
Is television's main purpose to transmit facts?
Fake (social media) accounts, known as bots, can help sway advertising audiences and reshape political debates. They can defraud businesses and ruin reputations.
— NICHOLAS CONFESSORE, GABRIEL J.X. DANCE, RICHARD HARRIS and MARK HANSEN, nytimes.com
People will believe anything the computer tells them, even when it's a lie.
It is the excess of reality that puts an end to reality, just as the excess of information puts an end to information.
You can’t believe what it’s like to get up in the morning and read your name and see you did something or said something that just didn’t happen. There are cases when I wasn’t even there.
These years are upsetting because I feel like we're being gas lit as a country in that what we see going on is just being described as the opposite but relentlessly by, you know, the administration.
The best defense against bullshit is vigilance. So if you smell something, say something.
Propaganda hides your scum. Face to face you don't have a word to say.
They were given the choice to be kings or messengers. Like children, they all wanted to be messengers. That is why they're running through each other and shouting to each other their meaningless messages because there are no kings. They would love to put an end to their miserable lives, but they do…