Bashir Assad Quotes

Fake news has been around as long as news has been around.

Let's talk about real fake news. If this were about a religion or if this were about a Muslim ban, then how come the largest Muslim nation on the planet...Indonesia, exactly, isn't listed?

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.

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.

One of the reasons why I think people have gone from reading mainstream newspapers to the Internet is because they realize they're being lied to.

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

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.

What's public is propaganda, what's secret is serious.

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

Russia has always been involved in propaganda and disinformation.

Donald Trump really understood how to float a story, how to float a rumor, how to manipulate the truth.

In the descent from a world of factual discourse into a world of emotions and alternative realities, the first step you take, whether you're the Russian media, whether you're Breitbart, is that you manufacture lots of stuff that isn't true. The second step is that you claim that everyone is like this.

There was so much fake news in Wisconsin, that Scott Walker stuff, they had fake polls. The protests in Madison, which is where the University of Wisconsin is, perfect examples of the use of fake news, trying to make Walker - really they tried to dispirit Walker's supporters.

In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false.

First rule in this world baby... don't believe ANYTHING you see on the news.

The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.

There's so many lies being told throughout the media and people just run with the lies. They're numb to it. Too many followers, not enough leaders.

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.

Counter-knowledge covers the propagation of false legends and conspiracy theories often used for political purposes or fundamentalist religious propaganda.

The first casualty when war comes is truth.

A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information.

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

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

There are people who are very highly paid to cover the truth and who will protect their clients.