Former President Barack Obama demanded a “digital fingerprint” to crack down on “untruthful” information in a podcast interview Thursday with a former adviser.
“I think we, the ordinary people, need to become more discerning consumers of news and information. We need to develop the technology over time to do that,” Obama told Fox News, former Obama National Security Advisor and now CNN contributor David Axelrod. report. “There’s a lot of work to be done there, but in the short term it really depends on what the American people say.” (Related: ‘Get the Nazis out of the way’: CNN guest Jake Tupper says Facebook should step up censorship)
Obama proposes ‘digital fingerprint’ to combat misinformation https://t.co/8XZrNao7In
— Fox News (@FoxNews) June 16, 2023
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After Axelrod said during an interview that he had “seen a deepfake,” Obama said, “When I left office, I was the first digital president. Probably the most recorded, filmed and photographed president in history.” It was a human being filmed, and this is a little strange.” ” Documents from President Obama. “But probabilistically, so did I. As a result, there is a ton of raw material out there.”
In a 2022 speech at Stanford University, President Obama said misinformation was causing people’s deaths, accused former Trump administration officials Steve Bannon and Russian President Vladimir Putin, and called for censorship. asked for reinforcement.
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