Hillary Clinton: Just like we had to rein in smoking, we've got to rein in the tech platforms before they truly undermine everything that we believe in

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the party is always right.

George Orwell, he/his/him

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said technology platforms must be reined in before the situation gets worse.

Clinton said this in a Hold The Line interview with Rappler CEO Maria Ressa, to be aired on Wednesday, April 14.

"We're in a situation with these platforms [that] if they're not reined in, it's not just the threat and the reality of the world on fire right now, it is even worse than that. It leads to a form of not just populism and nationalism, but fascism, of totalitarianism, of a kind of mind control that people have fallen into without awareness and certainly without permission", Clinton said.

"Just like we had to rein in smoking once we learned that it caused lung cancer, we've got to rein in the tech platforms before they truly undermine everything that we believe in", she said.

Clinton, who was a subject of conspiracy theories and disinformation during the 2016 presidential campaign, admitted that she only fully understood the extent of the problem after the elections that saw her lose to Donald Trump. She had blamed her defeat on an apparent US-Russian collusion.

"I have to confess: I did not understand what was going on in 2015 and 2016. In retrospect, it all seems fairly clear and ominous. But at the time, we were learning as we went. We didn't really understand the full reach of what the Russians and Cambridge Analytica and the Trump campaign and all of the allied groups had done and accomplished until we were looking back at it", Clinton said.

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Hillary Clinton: Just like we had to rein in smoking, we've got to rein in the tech platforms before they truly undermine everything that we believe in

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