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A video of former President Barack Obama saying that the U.S. should experiment with new forms of journalism and government restraints on social media went viral on Wednesday, as critics blasted the former president's remarks.

"Part of what we’re going to have to do is to start experimenting with new forms of journalism — and how do we use social media in ways that reaffirm facts, separate facts from opinion. We want diversity of opinion; we don’t want diversity of facts," Obama said at the Connecticut Forum in June. Obama spoke to Heather Cox Richardson at the event, and noted her Substack newsletter.

A clip of Obama's remarks, posted by the X account Vigilant Fox, went viral on Wednesday as users criticized the former

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