Masha Gessen Quotes

The Russians know that well executed disinformation, when exercised tactically, can quickly metastasize.

That's basically what's going on now: Everything is propaganda.

A hit and run propagandist on the Kremlin model.

We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.

In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.

The fake news is - I mean, as a tool of warfare - has been there for decades and decades and decades. It was never very well done until, really, the Ukraine, though I would say that the Russians used to complain about fake things to say the State Department.

It is really - one of the things in it that I heard yesterday in his testimony that I thought was disturbing was this - what did he call it? - a massive persuasion campaign. That sounded a little bit like Goebbels or Gore-bels.

Increasingly, people have very little tolerance for anything that smacks of propaganda.

The battle against terrorism is not only a military fight but primarily a battle of information.

It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.

I set the propaganda machine in motion. Now we will see what the apparatus will do.

What's public is propaganda, what's secret is serious.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale. The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment.

I know propaganda when I see it, and I can speak with authority on it.

Russia has always been involved in propaganda and disinformation.

Vladimir Putin understood, from the Communist era when he was a KGB officer, that the Russian propaganda system of targeting Western media - that in the digital world, you could easily pull the Western media around by a nose ring.

The Russian propaganda machine, even in the U.S., is not to be discounted.

We have seen the corrupting effects of a deliberate propaganda campaign driven by fake news.

Reflexive control is a 'uniquely Russian' technique of psychological manipulation through disinformation. The idea is to feed your adversary a set of assumptions that will produce a predictable response: That response, in turn, furthers a goal that advances your interests.

Hitler and Joseph Goebbels understood that if you say something loud and long enough many people will believe it. A good journalist's first priority should be to separate propaganda from fact - but sometimes its very hard to do that.

Nazi propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels once remarked that if a lie is told often enough people will begin to see the lie as truth.

None of us should play party to any corporate warfare. We cannot become pawns in the hands of corporate giants' warfare to constantly bully the government, to throw misinformation to the public, tell part-truth and part-story to the public.

My experience investigating foreign propaganda operations predated the proliferation of social media platforms.

The greatest hoax of all of the Trump years is that Donald Trump has convinced one-third of the country not to believe not anything but Sean Hannity and Fox and Trump.