Barack Obama’s Disinformation Campaign

To adapt the adage of media maven Marshall McLuhan: This is the wrong message and the wrong messenger.

AP/Carolyn Kaster
President Obama at the White House April 5, 2022. AP/Carolyn Kaster

Can a campaign against disinformation itself be disinformation? That is the metaphysical question raised by President Obama’s latest crusade. Mr. Obama has been making the campus rounds, appearing at the University of Chicago two  weeks ago and at Stanford today to tell a tale of woe about the spread of fake news. To adapt the adage of media maven Marshall McLuhan: This is the wrong message and the wrong messenger.

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