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“When you look at things like social media, that's an immensely powerful tool that I'm all in favor of. I think it's amazing. It's a powerful tool, and it's one that we're, as a species, still grappling with learning to use. It's like we've grown an extra tail and we inadvertently lash out and knock over all of the furniture.”

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Author:Charlie Brooker

“I think more and more people became aware that social media was starting to feel like a more toxic space. And, I mean - quite a lot of incidents of people getting very, very angry about all kinds of things and attacking people.”

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Author:Charlie Brooker

“Things like social media and the Internet, of course, it's not going away. There is no cure for it. And this shouldn't be just like there shouldn't be, you know - it would have been a tragedy if there was a cure for the printing press. I think it's just that it's an amazing tool that we as a - as an animal are just getting to grips with because it's like we've grown a new ultra powerful limb and we're learning how to use it.”

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Author:Charlie Brooker

“I think that that the main problem with a lot of social media stuff in terms of ratings is it's a very skewed motivation.”

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Author:Michael Schur

“I do have very strong, very conflicted feelings about rating systems and social media.”

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Author:Rashida Jones

“Social media is a performance like any other form of entertainment, and acknowledging that is important.”

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Author:Bryce Dallas Howard

“In the beginning [of my social media life], I started posting and someone I'm close to said, "you're only posting pictures of yourself in your grungy pajamas. You're an actress be aspirational." Then I was like, "I'm not living an aspirational life on a day-to-day basis." For a while after that I was only taking pictures of, like, objects.”

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Author:Bryce Dallas Howard

“What it's done for me is highlight the fact that we need to lean into the cartoon universe of social media.”

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Author:Bryce Dallas Howard

“The clearer that division [of social media] is between it not being a reflection of reality, and being a complete make-believe world, the more we're helping ourselves.”

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Author:Bryce Dallas Howard

“In horror films, they sometimes don't show the monster because our imaginations and our own pain is so much greater. Social media is like that. I think it's so great. It doesn't have to show a monster - when you see someone leaving a mean comment, or living a so-called perfect life, you just put all of your pain into that.”

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Author:Alice Eve

“Social Media has now become a part of our culture - you are either a part of it, or you ignore it.”

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Author:Zendaya

“Crimes are being committed 24/7, 365 days a year. My show aired one hour a day, and then a repeat at 2 a.m. So I am launching a website, a crime-fighting website, a community. I will be writing for the website and curating content. Also, we'll have social media, Facebook Live, and a podcast. I'm really excited about it, and I believe we will help people - find missing people, solve unsolved homicides.”

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Author:Nancy Grace

“If we want to talk about the coarsening of the culture, I hope you devote a whole two hours for it and I would be happy to be a guest, but I'll also offer up some other guests. I don't appreciate many of the things that are said in our political discourse, I don't appreciate many of the things that are said on social media. You [Anderson Cooper] and I are attacked every single day, I'm sure.”

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Author:Kellyanne Conway

“I don't appreciate many of the things that are said on social media.”

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Author:Kellyanne Conway

“I never knew I was so stupid or so ugly until there was social media.”

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Author:Kellyanne Conway

“Mostly, I stay out of social media conversations. But sometimes, they hunt me down and shoot at me anyway!”

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Author:Ani DiFranco

“For anybody here who's very worried about domestic priorities, just consider we have created, with this war on terrorism, more fighters, more countries embroiled. They're learning new weapons. They're learning new techniques. They're coming here in social media. The lone wolf thing is expanding. And once that blows here, then forget about domestic priorities.”

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Author:Ralph Nader

“If there's something I feel certain of, it is that we're not very aware of each other and that's largely because of social media.”

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Author:Alton Brown

“A so-called news organization called the Denver Guardian - which, by the way, doesn't exist - wrote an article and pushed it on social media that said that the pope had endorsed Donald Trump. That's the perfect definition of fake news. It was intentionally designed to deceive.”

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Author:Vivian Schiller

“I think it would be a mistake for social media companies to try to, on their own, determine or deign what is a fake news story and what isn't and shut it off, or what's a good news organization or a bad news organization. That's a very, very slippery slope.”

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Author:Vivian Schiller

“I actually quite like [social media]. It's spontaneous, you don't really have to commit to it and I enjoy the interaction. Also, I have never sworn on there, not once.”

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Author:Gordon Ramsay

“Videoing, lifting it, prodding it, and five minutes later they might even eat it! That first approach to the naked eye is crucial, so when you see pictures coming through on your social media, it does push you to be a little more creative and raise the bar a little bit higher.”

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Author:Gordon Ramsay

“I think it's a scary sign of the times that pop culture and social media is so involved [in presidential election ], where it feels like a reality show. I have hope that the right decision will be made.”

“Donald Trump was underrated, but he understood social media and he understood reality television.”

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Author:Van Jones

“All the old rules - if you say some crazy stuff you get your show canceled or you get your campaign ended - don't apply in the world of social media. They don't apply in the world of reality TV.”

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Author:Van Jones

“It's hard to predict what will happen as reading on screen becomes more of a universal norm, and when the formats dictated by social media - Twitter's 140-character limit, for instance - start to influence what we're used to.”

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Author:Michael Bierut

“We're not like the American administration, we're not social media administration or government. We are a government that deals with reality. When we have evidence, we'll announce it.”

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Author:Bashar al-Assad

“Even with social media and where we are...everything is about the look.”

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Author:Pusha T

“Social media and young people, art, music, all communications make this one of the most active times for activism. It will be a time of change.”

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Author:Neil Young

“American politics is always somewhat fluid. In this age of social media, it means that voters can swing back and forth.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“You have social media and the Internet and immigration and so, suddenly, cultures are clashing and people feel as if they're less familiar with the people around them. That causes social anxieties.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“Part of what's changed in politics is social media and how people are receiving information.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“It's easier to make negative attacks and simplistic slogans [in social media] than it is to communicate complex policies.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“If we are not serious about facts and what's true and what's not. And particularly in an age of social media where so many people are getting their information in sound bites and snippets off their phones, if we can't discriminate between serious arguments and propaganda, then we have problems.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“Social media are fundamental to communicate and understand what happens in the world. It's a point of view and an immediate commentary.”

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Author:Franca Sozzani

“There's lot of social censorship now, especially in this era of ubiquitous social media.”

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Author:Margaret Cho

“Today on social media, you can release anything and everybody will hear it. Back in the day, that was your only outlet, getting a deal with a record company and them distributing it around the world.”

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Author:Keith Sweat

“There's nothing you can do about what social media is now or the internet. You just try to find other avenues to make yourself seen and heard.”

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Author:Keith Sweat

“You can't sit on the sidelines and read your iPhone and be on social media and expect everything to be cool. You have to be part of this.”

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Author:Susan Rice

“It's not the day in which I grew up, long time ago, where we had three news networks. No cable, no social media, no internet. Where what you see is what you got. We had basically straight journalism. We don't have that anymore.”

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Author:Susan Rice

“I don't get tied to the music industry where you have to be on social media all day.”

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Author:Tweet

“Globalization combined with technology, combined with social media and constant information, have disrupted people's lives sometimes in very concrete ways; a manufacturing plant closes and suddenly an entire town no longer has what was the primary source of employment.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“People would publish their websites; other people would read them. But there was no real back and forth other than through e-mail. Web 2.0 was what they called the collaborative web - Facebook, Twitter, the social media.”

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Author:Edward Snowden

“[Some young athletes] get home, look at social media, and they have thousands of people ripping it out of them, telling them that they're terrible at their profession, they hope they lose their next match or fight.It's hugely negative and unless you can rise above it and pay no attention, it can have a very serious impact on that person's state of mind.”

“Just think about it, be honest, how many groups have you heard of in the last five or six, seven, eight years that you never heard of playing live? You never heard of them making a record. You never heard of them in anybody else's band, and all of a sudden they're the biggest thing going. That to me, that's to me social media music. I'm not saying it's right or it's wrong but it is what it is.”

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Author:Joe Louis Walker

“If you read social media, you can see how immigration is such a hot-button debate and [a hotbed] of ignorance. You know there's guys that say immigrants come here, and they create so much crime and they take jobs. There's multiple sides to every story.”

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Author:George Lopez

“My parents [father Lenny Kravitz and Bonet] did exactly what they wanted and didn't let anyone tell them not to. Now, as women, we need to continue to do that. Especially in the age of social media, when everyone has an opinion and it's so easy to be influenced.”

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Author:Zoe Kravitz

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