The True Story of Fake News Quotes

“By building mountains out of molehills, through lying by omission, agenda-setting, framing stories and issues in a certain light, and by manipulating what is spread through social media by either limiting its reach or artificially amplifying it, the major media and tech companies try, and they do, influence the way people think and thus how they act.”
― Mark Dice, The True Story of Fake News: How Mainstream Media Manipulates Millions

“As people have come to rely more and more on the media to think for them and don’t use their own brains to remember things because they can “just Google it,” many have continued to dull their own ability to think, reason, and remember.”
― Mark Dice, The True Story of Fake News: How Mainstream Media Manipulates Millions

“Millions of Americans believe President Trump is a white supremacist and that police departments across the country are dominated by racist white men who enjoy killing black people. A large number of people still believe the moon landing was faked, and Flat Earthers even made a resurgence in early 2016, despite having limitless scientific research at their fingertips, they actually believe the Earth is flat and that NASA is lying to us; so it’s clear we have a serious problem with knowledge and information in today’s society.”
― Mark Dice, The True Story of Fake News: How Mainstream Media Manipulates Millions

“Introduction Real Fake News The Media Circus The Power of Propaganda Lying by Omission Fake Hate Crimes Operation Mockingbird White House Correspondents’ Dinner Liberal Bias Confirmed The Sun Valley Conference The New Media”
― Mark Dice, The True Story of Fake News: How Mainstream Media Manipulates Millions

“Postman points out that, “we are urged by newscasters to ‘join them tomorrow.’ What for? One would think that several minutes of murder and mayhem would suffice as material for a month of sleepless nights. We accept the newscaster’s invitation because we know that the ‘news’ is not to be taken seriously, that it is all in fun, so to say. Everything about a news show tells us this — the good looks and amiability of the cast, their pleasant banter, the exciting music that opens and closes the show, the vivid film footage, the attractive commercials — all these and more suggest that what we have just seen is no cause for weeping.”66”
― Mark Dice, The True Story of Fake News: How Mainstream Media Manipulates Millions

“I do think there is a certain profound lack of empathy in asserting that the only reason someone could have voted the way they did is they saw some fake news. If you believe that, then I don’t think you have internalized the message the Trump supporters are trying to send in this election,” Zuckerberg said.61”
― Mark Dice, The True Story of Fake News: How Mainstream Media Manipulates Millions

“The shift from print journalism to websites and Facebook pages doesn’t just pose a danger to the distribution and verification of news, but it also puts our historical records at risk as well. Headlines and articles can now be changed without notice and information can vanish down a memory hole with little to no trace of its existence.”
― Mark Dice, The True Story of Fake News: How Mainstream Media Manipulates Millions

“Even if you’ve suspected this kind of deception occurs, I’m confident that this book has provided you with countless pieces of evidence to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that we are in an information war, and as technology advances, the tactics to abuse it will likely also continue to advance. Soon it may be difficult for even experts to prove that something is or is not true.”
― Mark Dice, The True Story of Fake News: How Mainstream Media Manipulates Millions

“Unfortunately, that’s the society we’re living in now, where paid trolls and bots are being used to promote or defend certain causes or political candidates online in order to artificially screw the appearance of what people are thinking and saying on social media. It’s truly a Brave New World.”
― Mark Dice, The True Story of Fake News: How Mainstream Media Manipulates Millions

“The technical term for what they’re doing is called agenda-setting. They magnify selected stories and topics through their constant coverage and endless panel discussions about every little detail. Talking for hours on end about the stories creates a self-fulfilling prophecy by building certain instances into major issues, and by treating them as if they are major issues when they are not, and getting people to talk and think about them so much, they then become major issues.”
― Mark Dice, The True Story of Fake News: How Mainstream Media Manipulates Millions

“The mainstream media often steers the public conversation by giving constant coverage to certain stories which reinforce the ideologies they are trying to promote. They’ll often choose an isolated incident that’s making news in the local community where it happened, and while it has no real national significance, the major networks will ‘coincidentally’ determine it should be one of the top stories in the country and then sensationalize it so the incident then becomes a widely talked about topic.”
― Mark Dice, The True Story of Fake News: How Mainstream Media Manipulates Millions

“Former London mayor Ken Livingstone once stated, “The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations.”
― Mark Dice, The True Story of Fake News: How Mainstream Media Manipulates Millions

“processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind, who harness old social forces and contrive new ways to bind and guide the world.”84”
― Mark Dice, The True Story of Fake News: How Mainstream Media Manipulates Millions

“Before Bernays scheme was launched, engagement and wedding rings were just a gold band, but using his techniques of social conditioning he was able to brainwash men and women into believing that a large diamond ring”
― Mark Dice, The True Story of Fake News: How Mainstream Media Manipulates Millions

“While Socrates and Plato were searching for answers to these important questions over two thousand years ago, it’s a strange situation we find ourselves in when the ‘information age’ has helped to cause millions of people to drown in misinformation.”
― Mark Dice, The True Story of Fake News: How Mainstream Media Manipulates Millions

“The CIA admits they hacked into the computers of members of the Senate Intelligence Committee when they were investigating the CIA’s detention and interrogations programs under the Bush administration. 830 Again, they wanted to know who their sources were and how much they knew. So if the CIA would illegally hack into computers of the very Congressmen who are tasked with overseeing their activities, why wouldn’t they hack into the computers of reporters who are also investigating their unethical and illegal actions? The fact that these crimes are all but ignored by mainstream news networks shows that they are complicit in the cover-up.”
― Mark Dice, The True Story of Fake News: How Mainstream Media Manipulates Millions

“long before reality TV and Facebook or Instagram — media analyst Neil Postman ominously warned, “When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; [and] culture-death is a clear possibility.”
― Mark Dice, The True Story of Fake News: How Mainstream Media Manipulates Millions