False Information Quotes

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

Instead of debating whether or not Russia attempted to influence the 2016 elections - in ways that ranged from encouraging incorrect voting methods to promoting fake rallies to sharing false election stories - Americans should be debating how to counter this activity.

There are three kind of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

We must combat misinformation that is being spread.

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

You can fool some of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time. That’s usually enough.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

A half truth is a whole lie.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.

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.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

Of all newspaper presses, I never heard anyone deny that the American is the worst.... [N]othing is easier than to make the people know only one side of a question; few things are easier than to keep them altogether from the knowledge of any particular affair; and, worse than all, on them [the American people] may easily be practiced the discovery that lies may work their intended effect, before the truth can overtake them. It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true or the suppression of things that are.

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

We have seen the corrupting effects of a deliberate propaganda campaign driven by fake news.

If you want truth to go around the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go around the world, it will fly; it is light as a feather and a breath will carry it.

Don't believe everything you hear on the street.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

It's not about the past; it's about knowing your history so that you can fight in the present. Otherwise, you don't know who the real enemy is, what the real issue is, because it had been covered by many layers of bad information, of lies, and manipulation.

Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.

In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies - the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.