Daniel Levitin Quotes

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

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

When people talk about fake news, you know, a lot of folks just roll their eyes, like 'Oh, you know, whatever; people will figure it out.' The truth is, they don't always figure it out.

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 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.

In the digital age, it is easier than ever to publish false information, which is quickly shared and taken to be true - as we often see in emergency situations, when news is breaking in real time.

Don't believe everything you read in the trades.

People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it's right. Rumor gets printed as fact. We may have lost our critical facility as a nation.

You shouldn't presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate.

We must combat misinformation that is being spread.

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.

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

People still believe what they read is necessarily the truth.

You can't believe everything that's written or reported in the media.

I can understand pulling a book whose contents have been questioned - after all, false information has a way of sticking in your brain and seeming true when you go to retrieve it years later.

Fake news and rumors thrive online because few verify what's real and always bias towards content that reinforces their own biases.

People should fact check. People shouldn’t have to go through that and shouldn’t answer to innuendos.

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.

Ten percent of the American population thinks that Barack Obama is a Muslim. Those are the people that have not learned the skill of filtering information from the vast barrage of inaccurate information that we're all faced with everyday. I think that's a very 21st century skill.

Don't believe everything that you read in the newspapers.

You don't want to believe everything you read on the Internet.

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

I just love when the Internet is wrong. It's the only thing that will save journalism.

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

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.