The former
Secretary of State warns of the danger to democracy of lies flourishing online – and says big tech’s wings must be clipped
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Her bid for the
White House was engulfed by a tidal wave of fabricated news and false conspiracy theories. Now
Hillary Clinton is calling for a “global reckoning” with disinformation that includes reining in the power of big tech.
The former secretary of state and
first lady warns that the breakdown of a shared truth, and the divisiveness that surely follows, poses a danger to democracy at a moment when
China is selling the conceit that autocracy works.