Maggie Haberman Quotes

Like the Earth, the Web is a less appealing place than it used to be. If I want attitude and arguing and meanness and profanity and wrong information screamed at me as gospel, I'll get in a time machine and spend Christmas with my family in 1977.

When you look at Yahoo Answers, there can be a lot of garbage. But if you're careful about the rules and supporting good contributions, over time you can get better and better, like Wikipedia.

I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what it is; I tend not to do that.

Personally, I don't have a Twitter account. I like to be in control of the way the stand up of Stewart Lee is perceived, I don't want to have to engage with individual people. Also, when I do look at it, loads of factually inaccurate things about me are written.

When I did 'Jerry Springer: The Opera,' there was a big fuss, largely centered around the misrepresentation of its content. Had Twitter existed then, that would have been over in a week because people who had actually seen it would have been able to get control of the story through social media.

In the digital age, it is easier than ever to publish false information, which is quickly shared and taken to be true - as we often see in emergency situations, when news is breaking in real time.

In the news feed on your phone, all stories look the same - whether they come from a credible source or not.

The chances of me getting trolled are very high because of the films I do. But I only read the good things.

I love reading comments online.

When I tweet, I'm mostly preaching to the choir.

It's social media. You can't be thin-skinned.

It's when people come at you on Twitter and say really crazy things. That's the kind of stuff that I insulate myself from. All of that is not very interesting or helpful, but we have critics who sometimes really love us or sometimes don't, and it's really interesting for me to see what they don't like about it.

There is a danger, increasingly, that we're in a post-fact society where it seems my ignorance is as good as your facts.

Twitter is 'Black Twitter'. That is a brand that 'Black Twitter' has given itself. That's where the hashtags happen... where the excitement is.

YouTube is an amazing platform to talk about social issues because it gives people the ability to tell their own stories and reach audience around the world who may otherwise never be exposed to these people and conversations.

Social media is such a powerful tool and I would love it to be a hub of celebration rather than focusing on negativity.

I love some of the most hateful tweets. I think they're very funny. In the negative attacks on me, there are frequently some real displays of humor. I want to reply, but I won't, because there are all sorts of other people making serious points that I care about, and I don't want them to be discouraged.

Unlike many others, I anyway don't post much from my personal life on social media; it's mostly work related. And when I post something, I'm aware that not everyone would have nice things to say; I'm fine with it.

I really expected Twitter to be a scary place, for people to say horrible things, but I've had just the opposite experience.

I'm not one for reading comments or reading what people say online because, generally, there's a lot of negativity.

Social media is the wrong place to judge what India is thinking about.

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

Reddit is, it's like a tiger. It's great if it's your friend, but it can also eat you alive.

Don't take advice you see on the Internet too seriously!

People say what they think online because it's not to your face. That's a good thing. You don't really want people just being nice to you with their opinions.