Julian Assange on the Greatest Threat: How Ignorance Fueled by Bad Media Causes Wars

„Our number-one enemy is ignorance. And I believe that is the number-one enemy of everyone. It’s not understanding what is actually going on in the world. It’s only once you start to understand that you can make effective decisions and effective plans. Now the question is: who is promoting this ignorance? […] It is bad media. It really is my opinion that the media in general are so bad we have to question whether the world wouldn’t be better off without them all together. They’re so distortive to how the world actually is that the result is we see wars and we see corrupt governments continue on. One of the hopeful things that I have discovered is that nearly every war that has started in the past 50 years has been a result of media lies. The media could have stopped it if they had searched deep enough — if they hadn’t reprinted government propaganda — they could have stopped it. But what does that mean? Well, that means, basically, populations don’t like wars. Populations have to be fooled into wars. Populations don’t willingly, with open eyes, enter into war. So, if we have a good media environment, we might also have a peaceful environment.“

Julian AssangeJulian Assange reveals: Media lies fuel ignorance and drive wars – why truth is the key to peace.
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Julian Assange is an Australian journalist, programmer, and activist, known as the founder of WikiLeaks, a platform for publishing classified documents.

This quote from Julian Assange highlights the critical role of truthful and careful media in promoting understanding and peace, exposing how ignorance is perpetuated.


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Quote by Julian Assange about ignorance fueled by bad media causing wars

Born in 1971 in Australia, Julian Assange gained international fame through the publication of secret government and corporate documents on WikiLeaks. He advocates as a whistleblower for transparency and freedom of information and is a controversial figure in the global discourse on security and secrecy.

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