Hillionaire says there must be a global reckoning with disinformation

“They’ve got to rid themselves of both-sidesism,” Clinton told the Guardian this week. “It is not the same to say something critical of somebody on the other side of the aisle and to instigate an attack on the Capitol and to vote against certifying the election. Those are not comparable, and it goes back to the problem of the press actually coming to grips with how out of bounds and dangerous the new political philosophy on the right happens to be.”

Clinton placed blame on major social media companies for the growing amount of false or misleading information online, saying they have not done enough to slow the spread of harmful content by their users.
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“The technology platforms are so much more powerful than any organ of the so-called mainstream press, and I do think that there has to be not just an American reckoning but a global reckoning with the disinformation, with the monopolistic power and control, with the lack of accountability that the platforms currently enjoy,” she said.

Those statements, Clinton told the Guardian, did irreparable harm to the public's view of the media and America's largest institutions as a whole.

“It did do damage inside our own country, because it fed paranoia, conspiracy theories, partisan differences in our own political system that led many people to claim that the press was the enemy of the people, or at least the enemy of what they believed in," she said. “The fact is that certain media really became mouthpieces for Trump’s view of reality and fed the kind of disbelief and very negative view about anything that ‘the mainstream press’ had to say." LINK