Topic: Truthiness

An archival clip from 2016 shows Barack Obama discussing the need for a "curating function" for information, similar to the era of three television stations and Walter Cronkite. He suggests "deputizing citizens" to report information and creating a "truthiness test" to discard unreliable data. The hosts identify this as the long-planned origin of the current Ministry of Truth.

At the Frontiers Conference, President Obama called for a "curating function" for the "wild wild west" of internet information. He lamented the loss of a "basic body of information" once provided by figures like Walter Cronkite and suggested a "truthiness test" is necessary to discard baseless theories. The hosts interpret these remarks as a call for government-sanctioned censorship of alternative media.