Quotes About Disinformation

#1. Esso has been the main one in America spreading the disinformation that there is no global warming problem.

James Lovelock

#2. Anything that's secret, clandestine, loaded with such a supercargo of speculation, misinformation, disinformation and, for that matter, accurate revelations, creates an appetite.

Charles McCarry

#3. Disinformation is distinguished from misinformation in that it is intentionally fraudulent.

Ellen P. Lacter

#4. I ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit.

Al Franken

#5. Denial itself was institutionalized as a government function. Since 1923, the Turkish government has spent tens of millions of dollars in a concerted disinformation campaign to delude the world at large and, perhaps more important, its own people.

Eric Bogosian

#6. There's so much information that there is disinformation.

Ferran Adria

#7. We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the US public believes is false.

William J. Casey

#8. Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers ... Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.

Al Franken

#9. [The Freedom Writer] is full of disinformation ... typical of left-wing journals like yours, you print anything you can find that is derogatory to those with whom you disagree - without checking the facts.

Tim LaHaye

#10. What is happening here is that television is altering the meaning of "being informed" by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. I am using this word almost in the precise sense in which it is used by spies in the CIA or KGB.

Neil Postman

#11. The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

Carl Bernstein

#12. Disinformation is most effective in a very narrow context.

Frank Snepp

#13. Senior administrators within the CIA participated in plausible denial and other disinformation and cover-up strategies concerning CIA operations run on U.S. soil. Like

Colin A. Ross

#14. Disinformation about the state of climate change science is extraordinarily if not criminally irresponsible ...

Donald Brown

#15. When disinformation is running rampant, there are two ignorances that may emerge: the one is actually positive, a sort of pure and intentional emptying of the mind; but the other is of course negative and clogged and polluted.

Criss Jami

#16. While information is the oxygen of the modern age, disinformation is the carbon monoxide that can poison generations.

Newton Lee

#17. Disinformation is a large part of its[CIA] covert action responsibility, and the American people are the primary target of its lies.

Ralph McGehee

#18. The urban myth that carrots are good for your eyesight originated in wartime disinformation, intended to stop the Nazis wondering why the British were getting so good at spotting raiding bombers.

Ian Stewart

#19. In a 24/7 news cycle, with all the shrieking, howling voices and rapid-response and instant spinning and Soviet-style disinformation-mongering, a good idea has a shelf life of about, um, six seconds.

Christopher Buckley

#20. Of course, disinformation," Quinn said. "I can do that. I'll leave out critical events, then I'll put in false information and twist everything that has happened around into a vague, shadowy history that obscures what really took place.

Terry Goodkind

#21. The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the disinformation age) it takes on a special urgency and importance.

Michael Crichton

#22. Disinformation, in order to be effective, must be 90% accurate.

Peter Dale Scott

#23. There is no information about corporations. There is only disinformation.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#24. Disinformation is duping.
Misinformation is tricking.

Toba Beta

#25. The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.

James Lovelock

#26. Agents of disruption, subversion, sabotage and disinformation tunnelers and smugglers, listeners and forgers, trainers and recruiters and talent spotters and couriers and watchers and seducers, assassins and balloonists, lip readers and disguise artists.

John Le Carre

#27. Government disinformation is an intelligent joke for smart generation.

Toba Beta

#28. Information technology alone cannot provide us an absolute shield against its evil twin disinformation technology. Our only protection is law, and that protection is available to us only if legitimate governments have the power to govern.

Paul Starr

#29. Personal branding is about managing your name - even if you don't own a business - in a world of misinformation, disinformation, and semi-permanent Google records. Going on a date? Chances are that your "blind" date has Googled your name. Going to a job interview? Ditto.

Tim Ferriss

#30. Ignorance was the enemy. Lies and superstition, misinformation, disinformation. Sometimes, no information at all. Ignorance killed billions of people. Ignorance caused the Zombie War.

Max Brooks

#31. Twitter is an astounding platform for information, but it's a total blank slate - which means it's an astounding platform for disinformation, too.

Rachel Sklar

#32. Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim.

Michael E. Mann

#33. When I speak out on corporations hurting the common man or the environment or other species, I expect a well-financed disinformation campaign to be aimed my way.

Neil Young

#34. Information is power. Disinformation is abuse of power.

Newton Lee

#35. If politics is like show business, then the idea is not to pursue excellence, clarity or honesty but to appear as if you are, which is another matter altogether.

Neil Postman

#36. The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.

Garry Kasparov

#37. In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Winston S. Churchill

#38. I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true

Lady Gaga

#39. They follow the Hitler line - no matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.

John F. Kennedy