Jared Cohen, American businessman

We live in the world where all wars will begin as cyber wars… It’s the combination of hacking and massive, well-coordinated disinformation campaigns.

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors

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.

Carl Bernstein, American journalist

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.

George Orwell, British writer

Political language — and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists — is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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