Fake News Quotes – To Encourage Questioning
This collection of quotes is all about the notion of ‘fake news‘.
The purpose of sharing these quotes is to encourage informed thought and questioning. It’s not about swaying opinion or pushing an agenda, it’s to encourage open thought.
What is ‘Fake News’?
Fake news is deliberately fabricated content that is used to confuse people, influence their beliefs and/or make them share propaganda.
Fake news can be any piece of information, entirely false or otherwise distorted to serve an agenda. This could be about politics, public health, science or just something entertaining.
It’s worth thinking about why fake news exists and what interests stand to gain from the spread of false information.
Fake News Quotes
People must not believe in rumours. Even those who are spreading rumours and fake news must realize that they are not only disturbing others, but also putting their own lives at risk. Ravi Kishan
Alternative facts and fake news are just other names for propaganda. Johnny Corn
We can’t have, like, willy-nilly proliferation of fake news. That’s crazy. You can’t have more types of fake news than real news. That’s allowing public deception to go unchecked. That’s crazy. Elon Musk
We have seen the corrupting effects of a deliberate propaganda campaign driven by fake news. Jimmy Gomez
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. Austin Aries
Fake news is cheap to produce. Genuine journalism is expensive. Toomas Hendrik Ilves
In this era of fake news and paid news artificial intelligence is more and more used as a political tool to manipulate and dictate common people, through big data, biometric data, and AI analysis of online profiles and behaviors in social media and smartphones. But the days are not far when AI will also control the politicians and the media too. Amit Ray
Fake news has emerged a new menace, whose purveyors proclaim themselves as journalists and taint this noble profession. Ram Nath Kovind
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. Megyn Kelly
Fake news is a big thing in the field of Social Media Journalism. Fake news can be as simple has spreading misinformation, or as dangerous as smearing hateful propaganda. Fabrizio Moreira
Quotes About Misinformation
The biggest problem is that Facebook and Google are these giant feedback loops that give people what they want to hear. And when you use them in a world where your biases are being constantly confirmed, you become susceptible to fake news, propaganda, demagoguery. Franklin Foer
Fake news and rumors thrive online because few verify what’s real and always bias towards content that reinforces their own biases. Ryan Higa
I have said that propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation have always been part of political warfare. Social media and other new platforms have given it a new life and reach through which the fake news phenomenon can reach everywhere. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
The only difference between being uninformed and misinformed is that one is your choice and the other is theirs. Frank Sonnenberg
What can we do to keep ourselves informed?
It’s important to stay aware of how we use and what we trust as sources of information.
We need to be aware and question everything, not just facts but the journalists that report them, the outlets that publish them and the people with money at stake who benefit from their popularity.
We hope this has been some food for thought.
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