Hello and welcome to another edition of the Byron York Show, the No-Chit-Chap podcast.

We'd like to get right into it and what we're going to get into today is the former president

Barack Obama and a speech that he gave on disinformation.

You may have heard about it, I know that he said a lot more than you've heard about it

or read about it, and what he did not say just spoke volumes.

This is something worth taking a look at, so that's what we're going to talk about today.

There's a big fad in democratic circles to hold events devoted to the threat that disinformation

poses to America.

You may remember that David Axelrod, the former Obama advisor who now runs the University

of Chicago Institute of Politics, recently held a conference on what was called disinformation

in the erosion of democracy and his old boss, the former president Barack Obama, stopped

by.

You may remember it because there was an University of Chicago students who challenged the

premises of some of that conference quite vigorously.

But anyway, Obama comes by this conference run by David Axelrod, but now Obama himself

has taken center stage on the disinformation issue with the speech at Stanford University,

which is in the heart of Silicon Valley, the nation's tech industry.

Now the speech is important, in part because it will likely be influential among powerful

tech executives.

It might be seen as giving new strength to an effort to regulate social media, but the

speech is also important for what it did not say.

Obama, like lots of others in the Democratic Party and in established media circles, is

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