Quote of the day by Barack Obama: 'Our new information ecosystem is turbocharging some of humanity's worst impulses' — a warning against rampant disinformation
THE SO WHAT
When a former US president calls out the information ecosystem as amplifying our worst impulses, it underlines that disinformation is now a structural feature, not a bug. Any product that touches news, recommendations, or user-generated content needs an explicit disinfo threat model baked into design and governance, not left to comms to clean up.
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