Obama Regrets Not Doing More to Stop Disinformation

Former President Barack Obama railed against disinformation in a speech at Stanford University saying he regrets not combating its spread during his presidency.

Said Obama: “What does still nag at me though was my failure to fully appreciate at the time just how susceptible we had become to lies and conspiracy theories, despite having spent years being a target of disinformation myself.”

He added: “You just have to flood a country’s public square with enough raw sewage. You just have to raise enough questions, spread enough dirt, plant enough conspiracy theorizing, that citizens no longer know what to believe.”