Mark Twain Did NOT Say, 'If You Don't Read The Newspaper, You're Uninformed. If You Do Read It, You're Misinformed'
By Ed Payne
Published on March 28, 2026.
There is no evidence that Mark Twain ever made such a statement. The claim was made in a post by the @KnowledgeArchiv account on X on March 26, 2026. The Center for Mark Twain Studies features this quote in The Apocryphal Twain, a collection of unverified anecdotes attributed to him. However, a Google Advanced Search for the quote on the Twainquotes.com website found no matches.
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