Julian Assange Quotes

We must combat misinformation that is being spread.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Our credibility had gotten so bad we couldn't even believe our own leaks.

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

I believe most media is filtered and fake.

When there are falsehoods and ludicrous statements made at briefings, we've got to call that out.

I suppose my attitude is what's most important is that we surround the president's misleading information with accurate information and help people know what is true 'cause I think the biggest trend of the Trump years is that people are increasingly confused about what is real and what is made-up.

There are things that go public, and everything that comes out is not the truth.

When it comes to snowing people, one effective technique is to get a whole bunch of verifiable facts right and then add one or two that are untrue.

When fake news is repeated, it becomes difficult for the public to discern what's real.

The phrase 'fake news' sounds too playful, too much like a schoolchild faking illness to get out of a test.

Fake news has emerged a new menace, whose purveyors proclaim themselves as journalists and taint this noble profession.

We are living in an age where it's difficult to know what the truth is and we have got politicians in charge who actually appear to not really care what the truth is.

We are now debating and talking about a story [Russian hacker attack] based on something that isn't true.

There is no rest stop on the misinformation highway.

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

Some experts believe that somebody is deceiving WikiLeaks, that its reputation is being undermined in order for it to be used for political purposes.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.