“Social media have changed things by making it much easier to spread fake
news. And it makes fake news financially profitable.”
—Economics professor Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford University
“The problem today is not that there aren’t good news outlets; the problem is
that there is a large group of Americans who don’t believe what those outlets
say, and have aggressively embraced an alternate, self-contained set of facts
and sources of facts.”
—Senior policy analyst Jay Stanley, American Civil Liberties Union
“The phrase ‘fake news’ . . . is being used by autocrats to silence reporters,
undermine political opponents, stave off media scrutiny and mislead citizens.”
—US senator John McCain
