Evgeny Morozov Quotes

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

I think 20th century media were about tricking people - and the beauty of the Internet is you can't lie anymore.

Lies and distortions can be spread, via the Internet, in an inexpensive way, and the effects are astounding.

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

It's not a 24-hour news cycle, it's a 60-second news cycle now, it's instantaneous. It has never been easier to get away with telling lies. It has never been easier to get away with the glib one liner.

Twitter is an astounding platform for information, but it's a total blank slate - which means it's an astounding platform for disinformation, too.

One of the reasons why I think people have gone from reading mainstream newspapers to the Internet is because they realize they're being lied to.

Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.

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

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

We're learning a tremendous amount of propaganda from television and the Internet.

If you create a visual that actually captures the imagination, that's not real. It will look real, and that will spread at such lightning speed that by the time it's found out, it has already done its damage. It's a very, very scary time that we're living in. I say it's an age of absurdity.

As I discovered in my media manipulations, the information that finds us online - what spreads - is the worst kind. It raised itself above the din not through its value, importance, or accuracy but through the opposite: through slickness, titillation, and polarity.

All these social media sites allow us to confuse truth and popularity. That has to be fixed. Because every normal citizen has a right to know what is factual versus what is amplified by good actors or bad actors.

Fake news is a big thing in the field of Social Media Journalism. Fake news can be as simple has spreading misinformation.or as dangerous as smearing hateful propaganda.

There is no need for propaganda to be rich in intellectual content.

In an age where there's so much active misinformation and its packaged very well and it looks the same when you see it on a Facebook page or you turn on your television. Where some overzealousness on the part of, you know, a U.S. official is equated with constant and severe repression elsewhere.

See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.

You don't need a digital David Petraeus or a President Bush avatar to distract you from the truth. You don't need to wait decades to have disinformation beamed into your head. You just need a constant stream of misleading information, half truths, and fictions to be promoted, pushed, and peddled until they are accepted as fact.

The rise of a ubiquitous Internet, along with 24-hour news channels has, in some sense, had the opposite effect from what many might have hoped such free and open access to information would have had. It has instead provided free and open access, without the traditional media filters, to a barrage of disinformation.

The first casualty when war comes is truth.

There are people who are very highly paid to cover the truth and who will protect their clients.

I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that.

The media lies to us all the time, and we always believe the media.