Hillary Clinton: ‘There has to be a global reckoning with disinformation’
by David Smith in Washington from on (#5HGDB)
The former secretary of state warns of the danger to democracy of lies flourishing online - and says big tech's wings must be clipped
Her bid for the White House was engulfed by a tidal wave of fabricated news and false conspiracy theories. Now Hillary Clinton is calling for a global reckoning" with disinformation that includes reining in the power of big tech.
The former secretary of state and first lady warns that the breakdown of a shared truth, and the divisiveness that surely follows, poses a danger to democracy at a moment when China is selling the conceit that autocracy works.
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