Around the world Quote by Anne Applebaum

“Sooner or later, all conspiracy theories, no matter how outlandish, must eventually rest a certain set of facts. And facts can be checked.”

— Vincent Bugliosi

“Always assume incompetence before looking for conspiracy”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“If we are serious about seeking the facts, we can each make a small revolution in the way the internet works. If you are…

— Timothy Snyder

“We were all journalists, professional truth-seekers, but one thing we knew about the truth that laymen were prone to disregard was that it need…

— Walter Kirn

A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers…

— Daniel Kahneman

Of course, we knew that the official reports were sketchy, if not falsified. But, in terms of information theory, this is precisely where the…

— Konrad Zuse

“Unfortunately, fact checking has become a lost art”

— Gary Hopkins

“People do not come to the Internet so that their bad information can be corrected or their cherished theories disproven. Rather, they ask the…

— Thomas M. Nichols

“Look at how the news is presented these days. Opinions become facts when they’re delivered by an emotional newscaster who has a political spin…

— Sara M. Barton

Many journalists have fallen for the conspiracy theory of government. I do assure you that they would produce more accurate work if they adhered…

— Bernard Ingham

Now in Wikipedia it's really interesting. If you put something incorrect up on Wikipedia within minutes there are people crawling all over that sentence…

— Jeremy Rifkin

There are some people in politics and in the press who can't be confused by the facts. They just will not live in an…

— Hillary Clinton