In a speech at Stanford, former President Barack Obama said tech platforms are “turbocharging some of humanity’s worst impulses.”
Former President Barack Obama urged greater transparency and regulatory oversight of social-media companies Thursday, warning that disinformation is eating away at democracy.
Calling disinformation “a threat to our democracy,” Obama said social media is being used to sow division and undermine the country. — Barack Obama “People like Putin, and Steve Bannon for that matter, understand it’s not necessary for people to believe this information in order to weaken democratic institutions,” Obama said during an hourlong speech. “You just have to flood a country’s public square with enough raw sewage.
Obama said he regretted not doing enough to fight misinformation when he was president, citing “my failure to fully appreciate at the time, just how susceptible we had become to lies and conspiracy theories, despite spending years being a target of disinformation myself.”
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