A quote falsely attributed to George Orwell saying that people who elect corrupt politicians are not victims but accomplices is circulating online. The Orwell Society and The Orwell Foundation ...

It is surrounded by a red box in the image below. The entry containing the quote was dated April 17, 1949. (Internet Archive/"Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell") ...

The quote was attributed to a collection of Orwell’s essays in "The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945." But we were unable to find the quote in an ...

In August and September 2021, an old quotation, attributed to the English novelist George Orwell, re-emerged on social media. For example, on Sept. 5, the Scottish historian William Dalrymple ...

VERDICT Misattributed. This repeatedly misattributed quote to British author George Orwell originated in a 2009 opinion piece by Selwyn Duke. This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team.

For some, the quote immediately recalled a line from Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984: “The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ...

Orwell was also a journalist and worked for the BBC before he became an editor at the Tribune newspaper. Animal Farm, an anti-Soviet satire published in 1945, was the first of his books to make ...

George Orwell did not write a passage referencing cell phones in his 1949 book, “Nineteen Eighty-Four”. Playwrights Icke and Macmillan wrote the quote for a scene in a 2014 stage adaptation of ...

VERDICT False. There is no evidence that George Orwell said this quote about the media. This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team. Read more about our fact-checking work here .