On Disinformation Quotes

“Neither objectivity nor neutrality require one to feign indifference between the truth and a lie; to refuse to stand up for the truth because it might look partisan is itself to succumb to partisanship.”
― Lee McIntyre, On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy

“The genius of disinformation is that it doesn’t just get you to believe a falsehood, but to distrust (and sometimes even hate) anyone who does not also believe this same falsehood.”
― Lee McIntyre, On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy

“The post-truth playbook goes like this: attack the truth tellers, lie about anything and everything, manufacture disinformation, encourage distrust and polarization, create confusion and cynicism, then claim that the truth is available only from the leader himself. The goal is not merely to get people to believe any particular false claim, but to so demoralize them with a tsunami of falsehoods that they begin to give up on the idea that truth can be known at all, outside a political context.”
― Lee McIntyre, On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy

“To stop the truth killers from succeeding, we must get more serious about fighting the amplification of misinformation and disinformation, and for that we need to create more reason for both partisan and social media outlets to curb the role that they play in propagating polluted content.”
― Lee McIntyre, On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy

“Throughout history, autocratic leaders and their wannabes have understood that the quickest way to control a population is to control their information sources. But in a society that still has a free press, disinformation is the new censorship.”
― Lee McIntyre, On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy