ambassador to Russia from 2012 to 2014, speaks at a symposium titled "Challenges to Democracy in the Digital Information Realm" at Stanford University on April 21, 2022. Michael McFaul, director of Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the former U.S. From Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine to former President Donald Trump's refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election, Obama said that efforts to subvert democracy are underway around the globe. Obama began his speech by taking a broad look at what he described as the tumultuous and dangerous moment in history that the world is currently experiencing. The former president laid out the case for why he believes tech companies must be part of the solution to improving the internet and why greater government oversight is necessary. "We see that our new information ecosystem is turbocharging some of humanity's worst impulses." "Like all advances in technology, this progress has had unintended consequences - it sometimes comes at a price," Obama said.
In an April 21 keynote address hosted by Stanford's Cyber Policy Center and the Obama Foundation, the former president warned that while technological progress has brought about transformative positive changes, it has also caused disinformation to proliferate and poses profound dangers for democracy. Photo by Magali Gauthier.įormer President Barack Obama came to Stanford University on Thursday to urge tech leaders to take the spirit of innovation that led to Silicon Valley's success and use it to tackle the serious threats to democracy that he sees in the current internet landscape. Former President Barack Obama delivers the keynote address during a symposium titled "Challenges to Democracy in the Digital Information Realm" at Stanford University on April 21, 2022.
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