Cecily Strong Quotes

If you're reading IMDB, half of it's made up. You can't trust it or Wikipedia, which is just lies, lies!

A lot of rumours on the Internet are wrong and horrible.

One of the problems with the Internet is that a lot of times it is inaccurate.

I really can't help what someone thinks of me because they are reading a paper and choosing to believe it.

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

Don't believe everything you see on VH1.

There is no fact-checking on tertiary celebrities. You can say whatever you'd like, and it will just rise up again.

There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

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

In the world of the Internet, there are many falsehoods. Anyone can write stuff on Wikipedia, and it doesn't have to be true.

The media can't get anything straight.

There is a lot of pseudo-science and nonsense out there on the Internet, and everyone feels the need to send it to me. And I'm sitting there thinking, 'It isn't real! Stop it!'

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.

I think what I notice now is that a lot of the things that are said to us on camera on air are not particularly believed and quite often not true and its an extraordinary position to be in when you've had WhatsApp messages, text messages off record.

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

It is an incredible thing to see how many crazy things get thrown out that people then often write commentaries about how happy they are or how disappointed they are about something that's completely false. But, it's a lot of noise, frankly.

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.

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

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.

The hardest thing is trying not to correct everything on the Internet. It'd be night and day - wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. So you just have to say, 'All right, I'll take it, bring it on.'

I send you the newspapers; but they do not always speak true.

The best information from the leading medical and health scientists and experts in the country was dead wrong.

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.

We are not going to do ourselves any favors by buying into what's printed in newspapers.