Jan Koum Quotes

I think it's time for the people and the press, in particular, to be more vigilant about not giving equal weight to lies as they give the truth.

I send you the newspapers; but they do not always speak true.

If you are a journalist, check and double-check your sources. Don't just swallow what politicians tell you.

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

You can't believe everything that's written or reported in the media.

I don't trust news sources, and neither should other people. They should use them in the same way that they use medical opinions and get more than one on the important issues. Trust is the most precious thing you could possibly give to another person. But to institutions? Publications?

Just because someone says something, whether it's at the podium during the briefing or the president tweets, I can't always assume that's factual. That's insane. We have to be very quick on our toes in fact checking.

Just because you read a report in the 'New York Times,' the 'Economist,' or, yes, 'The New Yorker' doesn't make it true. But we do know that a few people have evaluated that story with what strikes me as fairly objective standards of reason.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

But I'm very careful with opinions because I never know what the truth is. When I read what the press says about me, I don't really believe what it says about other people.

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

I'm very wary of news on television.

Fact-checking doesn't exist primarily because some of us are liars and cheats. It exists because writers will be writers, much as they may mean to be historians.

You can never trust what you read.

Be it true or false, so it be news.

The news and truth are not the same thing.

I don't take anything that I read in the newspaper at face value on either side - from anybody.

You shouldn't presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate.

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.

But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.

It's hard to know now who, if anyone, in the media has any credibility.

Don't believe everything that you read in the newspapers.

I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies.