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Obama Suggests Facebook and Twitter May Need Government Regulation to Combat Misinformation and Lies

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clicking here.)Also Read: Barack Obama Congratulates His 'Friends' Biden and Harris: 'I Could Not Be Prouder'In his interview, Obama worried misinformation was much easier to spread now than during the “Walter Cronkite days,” when only a few media outlets controlled the national narrative.

Obama said he doesn’t hold tech companies “entirely responsible” for the spread of fake news, but said it still poses a major threat to democracy.“If we do not have the capacity to distinguish what’s true from what’s false, then by definition the marketplace of ideas doesn’t work,” Obama said. “And by definition our democracy doesn’t work.

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