The President of the United States has recognized fake news spreading on social media as a major problem facing the country and the rest of the world.
“If we can’t discriminate between serious arguments and propaganda, then we have problems,” President Obama said during a joint news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday.
Heย said we will have problems if “we are not serious about facts and what’s true and what’s not, and particularly in an age of social media when so many people are getting their information in sound bites and off their phones.”
“Because in an age where there’s so much active misinformation and its packaged very well and it looks the same when you see it on a Facebook page or you turn on your television,”Obama said.