Obama: We must get our facts right ‘in an age of social media’

The Washington Post 2016-11-17

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During a news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, Nov. 17, President Obama said that “if we can’t discriminate between serious arguments and propaganda, then we have problems.”
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