Rachel Sklar Quotes

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.

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

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 Internet has made it much more effective and cheaper to spread propaganda.

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

Media manipulation in the U.S. today is more efficient than it was in Nazi Germany, because here we have the pretense that we are getting all the information we want. That misconception prevents people from even looking for the truth.

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

All of us technology companies need to create some tools that help diminish the volume of fake news. We must try to squeeze this without stepping on freedom of speech and of the press, but we must also help the reader.

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.

Trump has broken the news system because he has found ways to go out there, get attention, say a lot of things that are untrue and confuse the public.

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.

I believe most media is filtered and fake.

There is a war on truth raging every day, and journalists have been forced to fight some of those.

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.

I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.

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

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.

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.

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 distinction between reality and fiction in America seems like it is becoming really blurry. With its religious fanaticism, reality TV programs and fake news broadcasts being aired by the government, the States feel like they are entering the Dark Ages.

It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.

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