President Obama Says Fake News Makes Us Confused About 'What to Fight For'
"If everything seems to be the same and no distinctions are made, then we won’t know what to protect."
The president may have been in Germany as part of his final official tour abroad, but the subject returned to the United States, and more particularly, the problem of fake news.
In a press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Obama described the danger fake news posed in a democratic society.
“If we are not serious about facts and what’s true and what’s not and particularly in the age of social media where so many people are getting their information in soundbites and snippets off their phones, if we can’t discriminate between serious arguments and propaganda, then we have problems,” he said.
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