“America is the first real experiment in building a large, multiethnic, multicultural democracy. And we don’t know yet if that can hold.”https://t.co/uGJcj2ZcAm

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) November 16, 2020

What Obama is pointing out is that the country can't even work together if everyone gets their preferred truth from Facebook silos. It will fall apart, slowly at first, then all of a sudden.

— Farooq Butt (@fmbutt) November 16, 2020

.@BarackObama to @JeffreyGoldberg: “essentially what Republican elected officials have done is to say to themselves that in order to survive, we have to go along with conspiracy theorizing, false assertion, fantasies“ https://t.co/dfJXONnmlB

— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) November 16, 2020

The argument about treating Facebook, Twitter and other social medi platforms as publishers has been raised many times, but I never expected it coming from Barack. https://t.co/Mg87H8mmSX

— Tony Watima (@Watimz) November 16, 2020

Obama on social media and content moderation: https://t.co/8Xs2resDJN pic.twitter.com/yfXPV6Ou4o

— Scott Nover (@ScottNover) November 16, 2020

“They are making editorial choices” as President Obama says here, implies blanket Section 230 immunity shouldn’t apply. https://t.co/xJBcE1aBW3

— Arthur Bloom ?? (@j_arthur_bloom) November 16, 2020

As someone who lists epistemology on his CV as an area of specialization, I love this quote. This must be what it’s like for epidemiologists when politicians refer to epidemiological matters using the term ‘epidemiological’ correctly. https://t.co/3P3kPMoDFx

— Daniel Star (@dan_star) November 16, 2020

There is no question that Democrats are gearing up to use their new power to apply far more pressure than ever on Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc. to censor any views they deem "threatening." Obama could not be clearer about this:https://t.co/G22reIGTiQ

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 16, 2020

"If we do not have the capacity to distinguish what’s true from what’s false... the marketplace of ideas doesn’t work. And by definition our democracy doesn’t work." @BarackObama's most extensive interview in four years, with @JeffreyGoldberg : https://t.co/9bUXyvM1va

— Adrienne LaFrance (@AdrienneLaF) November 16, 2020

obama endorses deplatforming fascists https://t.co/8KjkXf5ZIv

— The Jewish Worker (@JewishWorker) November 16, 2020

An excellent interview. I would love to learn more specifics about what President Obama thinks regulation of social media companies should look like.

— Matthew Greenfield (@mattgreenfield) November 16, 2020

This whole interview is worth reading, but I would really love to know more about these conversations between Obama and the heads of social media companies! https://t.co/8aBNn5cF4N pic.twitter.com/UiSe8gyHkH

— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) November 16, 2020

Obama says social media companies 'are making editorial choices, whether they've buried them in algorithms or not' https://t.co/JEltQfORzL

— CNBC Tech (@CNBCtech) November 16, 2020

"Obama’s statement that social media platforms should be considered more like publishers than public utilities would have significant implications on how the companies are regulated.'https://t.co/sqheBjcivH

— Sabena Siddiqi (@sabena_siddiqi) November 16, 2020