Avast blog: Obama on strengthening our democracy and reforming social media

Last week, Barack Obama delivered a keynote address at an event, “Challenges to Democracy in the Digital Information Realm”, co-hosted by The Stanford Cyber Policy Center and the Obama Foundation. He discussed the role of government in online technologies, the relationship between democracy and tech companies, and the role of digital media to elevate authoritarian rulers. He touched on the point that we all now occupy entirely different media realities that are fed directly into our “personal information bubbles” of our smartphones.

You can read my post for Avast’s blog here to see what else he had to say to this audience and what he recommends we do to fix social media to make it better for democracy.

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