"After years of complaining about cancel culture," Obama said, "the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn't like."
Obama did not speak up when his White House successor Joe Biden's administration ran roughshod over social media companies by reaching out to execs at Twitter and Facebook to tell them to flag and remove so-called misinformation and disinformation on Covid, elections, race, the first family, and other matters. He did not speak up either when Trump was banned from social media platforms as a sitting president in January 2021.
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like. https://t.co/uts7JpJZzN
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) September 18, 2025