44 “It went from zero” and following quotes– Author interview with Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan, London, July 5, 2018.
45 “how do you begin to talk about?” – Icke and Macmillan, p. 17.
46 “How do we know the Party fell?” – Ibid., p. 95.
47 “What year is it?” – Ibid., p. 80.
48 “The people are not going to revolt” – Ibid., p. 89.
49 “I think dad would’ve been amused” – Daily Record, February 26, 2017.
50 “a continuous frenzy” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 220.
51 “something cruel” – Orwell, “As I Please”, Tribune, March 24, 1944, CW XVI, 2441, p. 133.
52 “may quit relying” – Robertson.
53 “crying hysterically” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 14.
54 “The People Believe What the Media Tells Them They Believe” – Nicholas Thompson and Issie Lapowsky, “How Russian Trolls Used Meme Warfare to Divide America”, Wired.com, December 17, 2018.
55 “I believe the biggest risk” – Andrew Marantz, “Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet”, New Yorker, March 19, 2018.
56 “One of the biggest challenges” – My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman, Episode 1, Netflix, 2018.
57 “the Ministry of Truth with ML systems” – Twitter, @alexstamos, October 7, 2017.
58 The Washington Post calculated – At https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database.
59 “Truth isn’t truth!” – Meet the Press, NBC, August 19, 2018.
60 “Many dangerous ideas” – Dee Rees in Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams (Gollancz, 2017), p. 54.
61 “What you’re seeing” – Donald Trump speech to Veterans of Foreign Wars convention, July 24, 2018.
62 “The party told you to reject” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 84.
63 “one is reminded of what Orwell got right” – Adam Gopnik, “Orwell’s ‘1984’ and Trump’s America”, Newyorker.com, January 27, 2017.