Obama Warns Against Irresponsible Social Media Use (bbc.com)

In his first interview since leaving the White House in January, former President Barack Obama spoke about the dangers of irresponsible use of social media. From a report on BBC: He warned that such actions were distorting people's understanding of complex issues, and spreading misinformation. "All of us in leadership have to find ways in which we can recreate a common space on the internet," he said. The former president expressed concern about a future where facts are discarded and people only read and listen to things that reinforce their own views. "One of the dangers of the internet is that people can have entirely different realities. They can be cocooned in information that reinforces their current biases. The question has to do with how do we harness this technology in a way that allows a multiplicity of voices, allows a diversity of views, but doesn't lead to a Balkanisation of society and allows ways of finding common ground," he said.

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A bluff? That's what we're calling lies these days? You do realize that Russia regarded Obama's "red line" in Syria as America's Suez Moment? The moment when the great power reveals itself as weak and cowardly. Russia would have NEVER tried to pull the shit that they pulled, invading Crimea and such, without being absolutely certain that Obama would do nothing. Thanks, Obama.