Lauren Mayberry Quotes

You can never trust what you read.

Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.

We must combat misinformation that is being spread.

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.

In politics there is a lot of spin—a lot of BS. My job is to cut through the BS.

We are living in a world where image-making is important, so we ignore the facts.

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

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.

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

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

Opinions are 10 a penny. In the spin-driven, PR-controlled world of the 21st century, hard facts are rare indeed.

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.

You can Photoshop something, put it out, and everyone believes it.

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.

People forget that unauthorized does not mean untrue and authorized does not mean authentic.

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

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

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

The news and truth are not the same thing.

The public doesn't know what to believe anymore. We don't know what stories are supposedly true, this idea of 'fake news.' We watch it on what I guess you would call a split-focus. It's half entertainment and half mystery.

Fake news is cheap to produce. Genuine journalism is expensive.

Unfortunately, often found next to things that are true are an enormous number of things that are not - in websites, videos, books and on social media.

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.

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