George Clooney Quotes

In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.

In the Internet age, with the screaming on the radio, etc., it is hard to know what to believe and who is informed and who is not.

There's so much more bad information than good information out there - everybody's got something to say and it's usually wrong.

Teachers say to me, 'The internet is full of rubbish, wrong answers.' But you would be surprised how just long it takes to find wrong information on Google, and where it's not obvious that it's wrong.

Never before in human history has more information been available to more people. But at the same time, never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people.

On the Internet, everybody has an opinion about everything, but if you're smart, you know when to keep your mouth shut.

Wikipedia is so dangerous.

The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?

We binge on instant knowledge, but we are learning the hazards, and readers are warier than they used to be of nanosecond-interpretations of Supreme Court decisions.

You don't want to believe everything you read on the Internet.

If I have one technology tip of the day, it's this: No matter how good the video on YouTube is, don't read the comments, just don't, because it will make you hate all humans.

If it's on the Internet, then it's gotta be true.

Just because you've Googled something doesn't mean you've learned.

I think that the Information Age is great, but there's a downside to it obviously as well, and it's that false information can be perpetuated so quickly. And it's sad that so many people will believe it.

2012 was the year I saw Twitter as a negative. More people need to realise that not everything they read is true and that Internet trolls are a real problem.

The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Search engines take misinformation and put it into our echo chamber. Trying to counter it is the functional equivalent of having your hair full of honey and bees and your trying to whack the bees with your hands.

Don't believe anything you read on Wikipedia!

We are not going to get rid of the digital media - nor should we want to - and so our challenge is to use the media to determine the truth, rather than to let the media obfuscate matters.

Unfortunately, often found next to things that are true are an enormous number of things that are not - in websites, videos, books and on social media.

If it's on the Internet, it's real!

If I've learned anything from social media, it's truly that the most irrelevant people always say the most absurd stuff.

I think more and more people are starting to understand that you can't believe half of everything you read or what you see. There are so many information outlets that are available that it's almost too much, there is so much misinformation out there.

There's so much active misinformation and it's packaged very well and it looks the same when you see it on a Facebook page or you turn on your television. If everything seems to be the same and no distinctions are made, then we won't know what to protect.

The democratization of news is fine and splendid, but it's not reporting. It's based on a fragment of information picked up from television or the web, and people are sounding off about something that's not necessarily true.