Former President Barack Obama called for “digital fingerprints” to crack down on information which “is not true,” during a Thursday podcast interview with a former advisor.
“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,” Obama told David Axelrod.
Obama called for the ramping up of censorship in a 2022 speech at Stanford University, saying that misinformation was causing people to die, and blamed former Trump administration official Steve Bannon and Russian President Vladimir Putin, among others.