Fri Jun 23, 2023 – 1:37 pm EDTFri Jun 23, 2023 – 1:42 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) –– Former U.S. president Barack Obama has suggested using “digital fingerprints” as a method of combatting “misinformation” that may occur during the 2024 presidential election.
During a recent podcast interview with his former campaign strategist David Axelrod, Obama addressed the potential issue of advanced technology increasing misinformation, specifically related to the next presidential race.
The former president pointed out that he “was the first digital president when I left office,” leading him to be “the most recorded, filmed, photographed human in history.”
“As a consequence, there’s a lot of raw material out there,” Obama continued. “So most [sic] immediately we’re going to have all the problems we had with misinformation before. This next election cycle will be worse.”
“And the need for us, for the general public, I think, to be more discriminating consumers of news and information, the need for us to, over time, develop technologies to create watermarks or digital fingerprints so we know what is true and what is not true. There’s a whole bunch of work that’s going to have to be done there, but in
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