Talk about authoritarian. He would have pushed ‘government rules’ to determine a ‘level playing field’ between Fox and New York Times. And guess whose ‘facts’ would have been allowed?
Via CNET:
On Friday, former president Barack Obama spoke for an hour at the MIT’s Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. But his speech wasn’t just about sports analytics. He talked at length about the role social media companies have in our political divide
“I do think the large platforms — Google and Facebook being the most obvious, Twitter and others as well, are part of that ecosystem—have to have a conversation about their business model that recognizes they are a public good as well as a commercial enterprise,” said Obama. “They’re not just an invisible platform, they’re shaping our culture in powerful ways.
Audio from Obama’s off-the-record speech was posted by the online Libertarian magazine Reason.
“Essentially we now have entirely different realities that are being created with not just different opinions, but now different facts,” Obama referenced how Fox News and The New York Times don’t describe the same thing.