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The most dangerous force may not be the lie — but the sustained systematic suggestion that the truth itself is unreachable.

— Eliot Higgins

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We're sitting on the precipice of the misinformation age: from the information age to the misinformation age.

In the past we were looking at radicalisation of people who joined Isis. It's the same kind of process that's happened with these Trump supporters. Instead of worshipping Allah, they're worshipping Trump.

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You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.

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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

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I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil.

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Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

Ulysses S. Grant Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant (1885)

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