Jenna Wortham Quotes

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.

Most people I've talked to are convinced that they're not getting valuable information from news media anymore. I'm not talking about tinfoil-hatters either, these are intelligent people who believe their news media has failed them.

Just shouting about 'facts' will get you nowhere with those who no longer trust the sources that produce them.

We live in a world with fake news being put out there. You don't really know what to trust, and it's a real danger to society.

There's an apparent freedom, an apparent liberty of access to everything, but you can't use it because it's too much. Everything is at the same level. You even have fake news. You have to go through fake news to make up your mind. Facts and lies are treated as equal. There are even people who are against the idea of climate change.

It's not as if Trump is addicted to the best-researched, most in-depth, meticulously sourced material in the world. If he were, we'd all be better off, right?

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.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

I'm very wary of news on television.

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.

I think that everyone is kind of confused about the information they get from the media and rightly so. I'm confused about the information I get from the media.

Traditional news is often full of mistakes, but I think that people are getting more sophisticated in knowing what to trust and what not to trust.

Reading newspapers in the state of Maine is like paying somebody to tell you lies.

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

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.

Don't believe the fake media.

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.

Don't read, click links or subscribe to any media organisations that peddle sinister untruths and stereotypes.

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.

Don't trust everything you see on TV.

There is so much unreliable information on the internet and in the media.

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.

Social media has had a corrosive effect on government and trust, and I think it is a real cause for concern.

The Internet didn't cause Donald Trump, and it certainly can't solve Donald Trump.

I think there is a danger when it comes to fake news because there is some fake news out there, but there's also a danger when you only hear back to you the beliefs you already have.