The US Constitution is a barrier to ending “disinformation,” claims the former Obama administration official
The freedom for individuals to choose their sources of information makes it difficult to reach consensus and, consequently, to govern effectively, former presidential climate envoy John Kerry stated.
At a World Economic Forum (WEF) panel on Green Energy last week, the former Secretary of State under President Barack Obama criticized the First Amendment of the US Constitution, which protects freedom of speech and the press, among other things.
Kerry pointed out that social media poses challenges for building consensus in democracies. “It’s really hard to govern today,” he remarked.
“The referees we used to have to determine what is fact and what isn’t have kind of been eviscerated,” he noted, adding that individuals now decide where to get their news.