Quotes and Sayings about Fake News

We all know, of course, what to make of our newspapers. The deaf man writes down what the blind man has told him, the village idiot edits it, and their colleagues in the other press houses copy it.

Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces.

Fake news travel quick and far.

April 1st - The only day of the year where people question the stuff they read on the internet.

You can't call someone a fraud, a liar, and a fake and hide under the First Amendment.

Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

I think relationships are broken up because of the media.

I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they'll print the truth.

Television and the media are everywhere and they are taking over so powerfully. They don't shut up for a second. So you are unable to think.

Democratic societies need a strong media, and WikiLeaks is part of that media.

People think that if they read something in the newspaper or see it on TV, it has to be true.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

One should never forget, that society would rather be amused than instructed.

Give me your love and not your like!

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.

Just move to the Internet, its great here. We get to live inside where the weather is always awesome.

People can say some extraordinary things when they're hiding behind a keyboard.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

The Internet is like a wave. You either learn to swim with it or you sink.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

In terms of the Internet, it's like humanity acquiring a collective nervous system. Whereas previously we were more like a... collection of cells that communicated by diffusion. With the advent of the Internet, it was suddenly like we got a nervous system. It's a hugely impactful thing.

Before you marry a person you should make them use a computer with slow internet, to see who they really are.

Don't point fingers on the internet, because the internet will finger you right back.

Disappearances are bread-and-butter to journalists.

So long as men write what they think, then all of the other freedoms - all of them - may remain intact. And it is then that writing becomes a weapon of truth.

A good journalist never reveals her sources.

What is it with reporters? You take one person's tragedy and force the world to experience it... spread it like sickness.

People aren't always very fond of journalists. You know what they say - lies are soft and malleable, but the truth is sharp and inflexible.

The most effective check and balance on government has been an independent press which maintains its credibility by ensuring that its criticism is balanced and based on fact - based indeed on solid journalistic work.

Certain people have wanted to put me behind bars for a long time now. That's part of my work. If I were afraid, I couldn't do what I do.

When did fact checking and journalism go their separate ways?

I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.

Journalism should be more like science. As far as possible, facts should be verifiable. If journalists want long-term credibility for their profession, they have to go in that direction. Have more respect for readers.

I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!

All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

I dare saying that in regard of protecting us from Corona, a mask that may be uncomfortable is way more effective than a tin foil hat.

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

There's a lot of money to be made in scaring people.

To begin with I thought we were driving around in circles until I realised that Herr Starbuck owned dozens of coffee houses.

What irritates me most of all about these morning people is their horribly good temper, as if they have been up for three hours and already conquered France.

Come on Ted, it's 2012. What do you expect, to meet some cute travel agent when you're reading a newspaper at a bookstore? None of those things exist anymore!

When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.

Lies are comforting. Truth is painful.

Current health status for the ones wondering: pissed off. Second time in 4 months they kill me.

April Fool's day? My life is a joke all year long!

Human beings do want peace, stability and harmony and that comes through democracy.

It is not a very difficult task to make what is commonly called an amusing book of travels. Any one who will tell, with a reasonable degree of graphic effect, what he has seen, will not fail to carry the reader with him; for the interest we all feel in personal adventure is, of itself, success.