Obama in San Francisco: 'Strange times' as tech, social media have polarized us
Posted on AllSides November 21st, 2019
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Even as Barack Obama on Thursday acknowledged that technology helped propel him to the presidency, he also cited it as a contributor to political polarization and anxiety over inequality and globalization.
The former U.S. president spoke with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff at Dreamforce, the cloud software company's annual conference, on the same day as public hearings in the impeachment inquiry into his successor, President Donald Trump.
"These are strange times we live in," Obama said.
Obama told Benioff that technology allowed them both to be successful and to have reach...
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