Internet Quote by Thomas M. Nichols

“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

Fact-checking doesn't exist primarily because some of us are liars and cheats. It exists because writers will be writers, much as they may mean…

— Alice Dreger

“Since in the age of the internet we are all publishers, each of us bears some responsibility for the public's sense of truth. If…

— Timothy Snyder

Lying in the political sphere has gotten out of hand, and because people tend to dismiss things that challenge their preconceived notions of the…

— Pamela Meyer

I've learned the hard way at the national level that any erroneous statement will very quickly be magnified. So, as someone who talks for…

— Michele Bachmann

Skimming has led, I believe, to a tendency to go to the sources that seem the simplest, most reduced, most familiar, and least cognitively…

— Maryanne Wolf

“But no one who studies autocratic propaganda believes that fact-checking or even swift reactions are sufficient. By the time the correction is made, the…

— Anne Applebaum

“I thought they’d fact-check it, and it’d make them look worse. I mean that’s how this always works: Someone posts something I write, then…

— Paul Horner

“Unfortunately, fact checking has become a lost art”

— Gary Hopkins

Skepticism's bad rap arises from the impression that, however necessary the activity, it can only be regarded as a negative removal of false claims.…

— Stephen Jay Gould

People don't bother to check with anything anymore. They just like to speculate in print. We like fact-checking!

— Mick Jagger

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