Maggie Haberman Quotes

People feel emboldened to say things on the Internet they wouldn't in person.

I think more and more people became aware that social media was starting to feel like a more toxic space. And, I mean - quite a lot of incidents of people getting very, very angry about all kinds of things and attacking people.

Twitter is the Devil's playground.

The Internet is a cauldron of anger every day, every year, election year or not, with unemployment at 10 percent or at two percent. It isn't exactly a good index of what's happening.

Sometimes I'll be reading something online and just get so frustrated because of what people are saying.

You know, it's really strange now with the Internet, with everyone having an unsolicited, anonymous opinion.

There's a lot of anger in the Twitter-verse, as I've discovered. But there's a lot of love.

It kills me to hear Donald Trump talking.

I don't care whether I am politically correct or not when I tweet.

The country would be a lot better off if we stopped having comment sections. And if we got rid of Twitter.

On YouTube, you know, if you say something, you know, that triggers somebody, it becomes a whole controversy, a whole thing - and all the comments and everybody's upset, whereas a book, there's no comment section. There's no - there's nowhere for the audience to, you know, get mad at you for saying something.

With social media, there is a fashion that we speak louder than we think. It has just become a platform where people just judge and spread anger and hate.

Twitter is an open forum and it brings the meanness in people. It shouldn't be taken seriously as at times it's a sadistic thing.

There's nothing that winds me up more on Twitter than people who are stupid, and who say the most ridiculous things.

We always talk about bullying, bullies; that is what social media is. It's just people we gave a voice to who didn't deserve to have a voice.

I've tried to stop reading comments online because if you believe everything, it makes you feel like rubbish.

People say what they think online because it's not to your face. That's a good thing. You don't really want people just being nice to you with their opinions.

The Internet is a blessing and a curse. I mean, it's a place where lots of people can express themselves, which is amazing, but it's a place where a lot of people can express themselves that probably should keep those expressions to themselves.

The whole social media thing is ridiculous. Everybody gets to say what they want all the time. That's fine in theory, but it's not civilised. Imagine going into a bar, and everybody in that bar is talking like people do online. They'd just get their teeth punched in.

Particularly on social media, there is that level of detachment, some people feel like they can say whatever pops in their head .

There's a negative connotation to internet trolls, but at the same time this is becoming mainstream. This kind of speech pattern, the way people speak, this is common on the internet.

There’s no point in having an online mob if you can’t give it someone to trample.

When you hold people up for ridicule, you have to take responsibility when other people act on it.

The most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger.

I'm wearing pants, for f---'s sake. Lay off. I mean, it's not like I'm a f---ing lead miner. There are harder jobs in the world. But when people feel the freedom to create Tumblr accounts about my c---, I feel like that wasn't part of the deal ... But whatever. I guess it's better than being called out for the opposite.