BHO discusses social media and Qanon with Will Sommer on Crooked.com podcast (in Q4865) - transcript of that portion. https://operationq.pub/?n=4865 4865 Oct 14, 2020 9:01:14 PM EDT Q !!Hs1Jq13jV6 No. 11075999  https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/1316531307355295745  Q From Sommer's tweet with this link - https://crooked.com/podcast/barack-obama-on-2020/ Barack Obama So that brings me then to the second issue. And that is the whole misinformation. Social media, media infrastructure, the conservative media infrastructure. We’ve had this conversation before. That is a problem that is going to outlast Trump. Trump is a symptom of it and an accelerant to it. But he did not create it. We saw. When, you know, during my campaign back in ’08. And we saw it, you know, you guys to deal with it directly during our administration. It has gotten turbocharged because of social media. And because the head of our government, of our federal government has resorted to it. But, you know, when you look at insane conspiracy theories like QAnon seeping into the mainstream of the Republican Party, what that tells you is that there are no more guardrails within that media ecosystem. And I think one of the biggest challenges, all of us said this is not just a progressives versus, you know, right wing issue. This is really a genuine American society issue is is how do we reestablish some baselines of truth? That at least the vast majority of people can agree to. And then we could have a whole bunch of debates about. All right, yeah, climate change is real. But, you know, Republicans think we just have to adapt because we can’t give up, you know, our cars. And progressives say, no, we should use these alternative technologies. We can have that debate. I have some pretty strong views about it. But, if you say climate change is a hoax, then there’s nothing we can do. The same is true with COVID. All right. You know, if you say ‘yes, COVID is a genuine, really big problem. A serious disease, here’s the science, we can agree to that.’ And then, you know, you have a country like Sweden that decides. ‘Well, we think we’re going to try to approach this through herd immunity.’ But at least there’s some coherence to their argument. I disagree with it. I don’t think it is proven out. But we’re within the same reality in our debates. We’re gonna have to find ways to do that. I don’t have a quick answer for that, because part of what happens within, when you get these echo chambers, is they become impenetrable. Right. Any– any bit of information that contradicts the world view and the conspiracies within it or the conspiracy theories within it, it gets rejected as part of a conspiracy and part of the liberala plot. But I do think that that’s going to be a big challenge that we all have. And I’m concerned about it.