Obama: We Have to Kill Independent Media before 2024

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Obama calls for independent media to be destroyed before 2024

Former US President Barack Obama has called for independent media to be totally abolished before the 2024 presidential election.

Speaking at the Copenhagen Democracy Summit last week, Obama called for a total worldwide ban on content he deems to be “disinformation,” “hate,” or a “conspiracy theory.” In other words, everything not approved by the corporate mainstream media.

Reclaimthenet.org reports: Before Obama took the stage, 2022 Obama Foundation Leader Sarah-Josephine Hjorth hinted at what was to come by railing against “fake news and misinformation.”

“While the increase in use of smartphones and social media first came with the whisper of renewed democratic participation, fake news and misinformation dominate the digital landscape and result in an erosion of the fabric of truth and polarization,” Hjorth said.

Shortly after taking the stage, Obama continued this theme by invoking the January 6 Capitol riot and tying it to “misinformation and conspiracy theories.”

“In my own country, the forces that unleashed mob violence on our Capitol are still churning out misinformation and conspiracy theories,” Obama said.

Towards the end of his speech, Obama made a more direct call for censorship of content that’s branded as a conspiracy theory, disinformation, or hate.

“We have to take steps to detoxify our discourse,” the former President said. “Particularly the scourge of disinformation and conspiracy theories and hate online that has polluted our political discourse.”

Obama continued by demanding that technology companies “accept a certain degree of democratic oversight and accountability” and noting that he spoke at length about these issues during his April 21 speech at Stanford University.

In his Stanford speech, Obama called for “solving the disinformation problem,” welcomed social media censorship of “hate speech,” and said that content moderation “doesn’t go far enough.”

After finishing his speech, Obama invited three 2022 Obama Foundation leaders, Tudor Iulian Bradatan, Selvije Mustafi, and Federica Vinci, to the stage. He then complained about the increased amount of misinformation since he left office and the difficulty of “sorting between what’s true and what’s false, what’s journalism and what’s fabrication.”

Obama continued by claiming that the politicization of COVID issues, such as getting vaccinated or wearing masks, was “driven just by misinformation that was out there.”

“I’m wondering how…it’s [misinformation] affected you and whether you’ve seen some solutions to…help young people distinguish between what’s true and false in making decisions about how to participate and what to support?” Obama asked.

Mustafi, a national grassroots organizer at the biggest Roma movement in North Macedonia, said “there are big concerns also in our movement about how…false information and misinformation is spreading on the internet to influence decisions by some political actors or political sides.”

She added that the challenge of this kind of fake news and misinformation is that it makes people have a “different kind of opinion which is not necessarily relevant or truthful.”

Vinci, the Deputy Mayor of Isernia, Italy, described the spread of “false news” and “false noise” as “scary.”

Obama’s Copenhagen Democracy Summit and Stanford University speeches are some of the many pushes he’s made for rules that would chill online speech.

Earlier this year, the former President proposed “modifications” to online anonymity when people are “rude, obnoxious, cruel, or lie” and suggested that social media algorithms should be audited by federal inspectors to deal with misinformation.

And in previous years, Obama has called for social media regulations that curb “crazy lies and conspiracy theories” and pushed internet platforms to reduce the influence of hate groups.

20 Comments

  1. Oh bummer is a worthless sack of feces. There’s never been a person in the White House, until obidon, that lied like this piece of crap. Virtually all misinformation, disinformation, propaganda, and out and out lies come from him and his side of the aisle. These people are totalitarians at best and murderous dictators at worst. Screw you oh stinky

    • Yes there was They’ve been a pack of criminals for decades. There’s been almost no honest president at all Obomo was just the logical projection in testing out just how deceyfil they could be.

      • Deceitful I typed. Auto corrects hacked by them The isps acting as their agents As they do The telcos, etc all of them in it together.

    • Obomo was a and is a tool He absolutely was the most obviously totally blackmail able commodity they ever used. From his birth cert to his orientation to his wife to his kids everything about him could have been used at any time to utterly destroy him And the entire a democratic parties credibility a d reputation for years into the future too. .

    • ” Obumo started the mis-information highway ”

      It was started by those who claimed he was born in Hawaii and not in Kenya . . .

  2. Bathhouse Barry (aka Honolulu Barry) and Michael Robinson (aka Big Mike) need to disappear. They’ve caused enough trouble already.

    • Barry was a CIA test tube baby who was groomed to be a future selected president. Big Mike? Well, you know!

  3. It is coming sooner or later because these people are not going to stop until they are totally stopped and the only one that can do that is God.

  4. Those in the Illuminati have said that “Obama is not Illuminati, he is something much worse.”
    Others claim he was made in an underground DUMB is Finland.
    I am sure in any case that he has no soul.

  5. The Obama’s, the Clinton’s, the Bush’s, the Trumps, the Joint Chiefs, Whoopie, Cher, Pelosi, pretty much the entire congress, pretty much the entire judiciary.

    The list of those that ya jus’ wanna wrap duct tape over their mouth. These cretins make my ears bleed every time they open their mouth.

  6. FREEDOM OF SPEEECH vs corp mouths on the payroll.FREE SPEECH always wins always.They try to place bad judges and those judges always turn into REAL goverment and keep us from TIC TIC SWAY SWAY crazyNESS MADD vs MADDness KILL KILL KILL

  7. The world has outgrown bad tic tics&TV dinners and now they are only a sideshow to the internettySS WHO`s GOD is the TECH&INTERNET

  8. whatever obama recommends, do the opposite. And get him out of the WH. His third term is killing America.

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