‘Lie of the Year’ winner Obama flamed for ‘disinformation’ speech: ‘Quite the expert’

4/22/22
 
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from FoxNews,
4/22/22:

Former President Barack Obama angered conservatives with his speech against the dangers of “disinformation” at Stanford University on Thursday.

If I were a Democrat surveying the Big Tech and social media landscape of 2022, what would I possibly say? Best thing I could think of: “Well done, good and faithful servant.”

Not Barack Obama, though. Nosiree. For the second time in a month, the former president made a clarion call to Silicon Valley to become more active in censoring what he termed disinformation and telling companies to “fix the problem that they in part helped create.”

‘Like so many other progressives, what Obama seeks to restore is the near-monopoly liberals once had on the information space.’

Prominent conservatives couldn’t stand the irony and clapped back at the former world leader, accusing him of promoting the “Russia-Trump collusion hoax,” and reminding him that he won Politifact’s “Lie of the Year” in 2013.

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National Review senior writer Michael Brendan Dougherty wrote a scathing piece about the speech for his outlet and said, “Like so many other progressives, what Obama seeks to restore is the near-monopoly liberals once had on the information space.”

Daily Wire reporter Ryan Saavedra torched Obama’s speech, tweeting out a screenshot of the Politifact article that awarded the former president with the “Lie of The Year” and noting, “Obama is quite the expert in ‘disinformation.’”

RealClearInvestigations deputy editor Benjamin Weingarten slammed Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s comments on fighting “disinformation,” tweeting, “When Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton et al. are talking about combatting ‘disinformation,’ you can bet a new onslaught on the First Amendment is coming.”

Conservative commentator and Podcast host Noam Blum tweeted about the same article, “I mean he’s the godfather of blaming websites for his own international screwups so sure, why not?”

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