Dahlia Lithwick Quotes

We must combat misinformation that is being spread.

We live in such a gullible world. Anything that's written, anything that's posted, anything picture that is interpreted one way is taken as truth.

I want America to know that you can't believe everything you hear, and nowadays, you can't believe everything you see.

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.

The Top Lie of 2010!

A lie can be half way round the world before the truth gets its boots on.

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 read, click links or subscribe to any media organisations that peddle sinister untruths and stereotypes.

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.

When fake news is repeated, it becomes difficult for the public to discern what's real.

We have Internet now and people are not stupid. But it seems that some people are trying to push the same agenda of the Cold War of conspiracy theories and amazing achievements that are very easily traced and validated.

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.

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

Alternative facts are not facts. They're falsehoods.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

There's so many lies being told throughout the media and people just run with the lies. They're numb to it. Too many followers, not enough leaders.

I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

You can never trust what you read.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

Some people believe everything they see on TV. People, it's called tel-lie-vision!

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.

Facts are incidental if not accidental, and the problem that we have as a society is that there is a significant number of people who have grown up in a different information environment ... surrounded by much more information, but whose provenance is not clear.... The rumors will be believed; the fiction will be thought of as fact; and the political agendas, among other agendas, will be influenced by interest groups who are coming from some quite strange trajectory to issues based on collective understanding that is founded on falsity.

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

It is 2017, and we are living in the golden age of lying.