Maria Konnikova Quotes

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.

Fact-checking can wreak havoc on Chinese political mythology.

Wikipedia is so dangerous.

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.

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

We have to challenge lies. We have to challenge falsehoods and conspiracy theories. If you don't, they fester - unchecked and unchallenged.

Don't believe everything you read in the trades.

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

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.

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

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.

No one is served or benefitted by believing in false or faulty ideas.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

You can't be distracted by the noise of misinformation.

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.

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

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

Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel.

2012 was the year I saw Twitter as a negative. More people need to realise that not everything they read is true and that Internet trolls are a real problem.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

I have learned that it is just as well to avoid even the appearance of something which you prefer not to have published as a fact! So many things are published as facts in any case which have no foundation in them whatsoever, that I don't suppose it really matters! For fair minded people usually wait until they verify a statement before they believe it, and those who believe it without verification are the ones who want to believe it!

Even if we live in a post-truth culture, […] we do not live in a fact-free zone.

Reading newspapers in the state of Maine is like paying somebody to tell you lies.

Clearly, you can't believe everything you read in the press.