After an election night video of a stunned and speechless Ben Rhodes went viral, the former Obama administration and Hillary Clinton official is fighting back with a plan for a government takeover of the Internet.
Rhodes is using fake conspiracy theories about the loss to push for government controls on what you can post to Facebook and Twitter.
The Washington Examiner reports:
Ben Rhodes, former Deputy National Security Advisor for President Obama, told NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell earlier this week that it “worries” him that the government doesn’t have more control over what is shared on social media.
He began by bemoaning that official White House statements during the 2016 election didn’t specifically address the “fake news” that popped up around the Democratic nominee.
“[We] didn’t really address … the fact that people’s social media feeds were being polluted by this Russian-created content favoring Donald Trump,” he said.
“The government didn’t also have a lot of capacity to deal with this. We can’t edit people’s Facebook feeds and say ‘that’s fake news, and that’s not’. And what worries me today, Andrea, is that we still don’t have a lot of capacity, and frankly our government’s probably not doing anything to prevent this,” Rhodes said in an interview with the MSNBC host on Wednesday.
He concluded, “And so the likelihood that the Russians are going to do this in the midterm elections, in the next presidential election, is very high.”
Rhodes’ appearance comes after a clip of the HBO documentary “The Final Year” surfaced online, in which a shocked Rhodes leaves Hillary Clinton’s election night “victory” party to process the loss. Sitting on a concrete bench outside the event, Rhodes cannot even speak to the camera.
The video has been shared millions of times, and inspired remixes in which it is set to music. A search for “Ben Rhodes election night” finds 1,210 videos.
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