Big Boi Quotes

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

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.

When people read 'Breitbart' every single day and convince themselves that Barack Obama is a foreign terrorist, that is not a problem of government. That is a problem of community failure, and we have to recognize that.

We can't have, like, willy-nilly proliferation of fake news. That's crazy. You can't have more types of fake news than real news. That's allowing public deception to go unchecked. That's crazy.

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.

There are news sources that are just out-and-out lies coming from Europe, coming from other parts of the world.

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

We have to challenge lies. We have to challenge falsehoods and conspiracy theories. If you don't, they fester - unchecked and unchallenged.

People stop believing what the media tells them when they see media superstars say things like, 'Let the economy fail.'

There is a danger, increasingly, that we're in a post-fact society where it seems my ignorance is as good as your facts.

We are struggling with the global war on the truth. And if what we used to think of as the domain of the Soviets, the kind of celebration of lies and press as propaganda, that now we realize is not something that is unique to the Soviet state. It's within ourselves as well here in the West.

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

In the descent from a world of factual discourse into a world of emotions and alternative realities, the first step you take, whether you're the Russian media, whether you're Breitbart, is that you manufacture lots of stuff that isn't true. The second step is that you claim that everyone is like this.

You have all these people in the press who are ringing their hands over fake news stories. That actually became the narratives for critics.

I remain terrified of the capacity of the media, the capacity of spin doctors, here and abroad, particularly the United States media, to perpetuate false lies, perpetuate lies.

Palin, Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and others have made an art form of convincing far too many Americans to suspend their disbelief, and they have severely damaged the ability of our country to have serious discussions about serious challenges.

We must combat misinformation that is being spread.

Fact-checking can wreak havoc on Chinese political mythology.

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

It's so important for people to pay attention to history and learn from it, because it's the only thing we've got that's going to help us figure out where we are going. Especially the way things are manipulated in the press today. You have to sort through so much stuff to figure out what is real and what is not. It gets harder every day.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

You can never trust what you read.

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

During the '90s the flow of misinformation was established.

I heard that after you throw away a 'New York Times,' it takes over a hundred years for the lies to biodegrade.