Former US President, Barrack Obama has said that at some
point social media should be regulated.
He said that America is confronted with huge task in
reversing a culture of “crazy conspiracy theories” that have exacerbated
divides in the country.
The ex-President used the example of the allegation that
Hillary Clinton and other politicians of the Democratic Party were running a
paedophile ring out of a Washington pizza restaurant.
Obama also told the BBC that the US is more sharply divided
now than even four years ago, when he handed over to Donald Trump.
Obama said that Joe Biden’s victory over Trump in the
November 3 election is just a starting point to bring Americans together again.
The first US black President noted that “the kinds of crazy
conspiracy theories, what some have called truth decay” have been amplified by
some US media outlets and “turbocharged by social media.”
He suggests that this is, in part, attributable to Trump’s
willingness to “fan division because it was good for his politics.”
Obama said that the spread of misinformation on social
media, where “facts don’t matter”, has contributed hugely to the issue.
“There are millions of people who subscribed to the notion
that Joe Biden is a socialist, who subscribed to the notion that Hillary
Clinton was part of an evil cabal that was involved in paedophile rings,” Obama
pointed out.
“I think at some
point it’s going to require a combination of regulation and standards within
industries to get us back to the point where we at least recognise a common set
of facts before we start arguing about what we should do about those facts,” he
said.
Obama had recently said President Donald Trump has refused
to concede defeat to Joe Biden because he (Trump) does not like to lose.
Obama also accused top members of Trump’s party of undermining
democracy by backing the incumbent President.
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