Obama gets it. (Because *of course* @BarackObama would get it.)

'If we do not have the capacity to distinguish what's true from what's false, then by definition the marketplace of ideas doesn't work. And by definition our democracy doesn't work.'

This is @BarackObama's first major interview & it's striking how much of it is devoted to the news & information crisis. Striking but completely on point. Because how on earth are you going to solve the climate crisis if half the world think it's a liberal hoax?

THIS

'Is this new malevolent information architecture bending the moral arc away from justice?'

@BarackObama: 'I think it's the single biggest threat to our democracy. Donald Trump is a creature of this but he did not create it..it preceded him and it will outlast him'