Did Obama call for online "truthiness tests" to "curate" news on the internet? I came across an article on Breitbart that cites Obama in the following ways: > We are going to have to rebuild within this wild-wild-west-of-information flow some sort of **curating function** that people agree to. > There has to be, I think, some sort of way in which we can sort through information that passes some basic **truthiness tests** and those that we have to discard because they just don’t have any basis in anything that’s actually happening in the world. > What we cannot do is have a situation in which suddenly this becomes the Wild, Wild West. The article includes a video. However, it's just muted footage of Obama speaking, with a woman's voice talking about what Obama allegedly said. I've tried a few relevant search entries, however, I can't seem to find any reliable source. Did Obama actually say any of this? Emphasis mine.

Yes.

You can see a video from the white house on YouTube where he makes the first statement and the second statement.

He is clearly not referring to censorship but to something similar to the Web Of Trust.

The third statement is unrelated and refers to cyberwarfare. Here's the third statement which continues with

> What we cannot do is have a situation in which suddenly this becomes the Wild, Wild West with countries that have significant cyber capacity start, ah, engaging in competition, unhealthy competition or conflict with these means