Speaking with historian Heather Cox Richardson, Obama took jabs at Donald Trump while calling for government intervention in how Americans access and share information online.

Obama warned against what he described as a political culture where falsehoods go unchecked and lamented that many Americans “throw up their hands” in apathy. Yet his solution was chilling: increased government oversight of social media to curb what he called "hateful," "polarizing," or "dangerous" content — terms frequently used by the left to silence conservative voices.

“It will require... some government regulatory constraints... consistent with the First Amendment,” Obama claimed, though critics argue any such move would inherently violate free speech protections. He stressed the need to teach children how to distinguish fact from fiction — but offered no acknowledgment of how the left has promoted its own falsehoods, from the Hunter Biden laptop cover-up to false narratives about Israel.

This isn't a new position for Obama. Back in 2022, at an event titled “Disinformation and the Erosion of Democracy,” he pushed similar proposals, lamenting what he called a growing “demand for crazy” and suggesting that government must step in to control online speech.

Critics warn that Obama’s call for regulation is simply the latest attempt to institutionalize leftist narratives while silencing patriotic dissent. As with the Southern Poverty Law Center and ADL's smear campaigns, labeling opponents as "dangerous" is step one. Step two? Use the federal government to muzzle them.

For now, Obama is just talking — but if Democrats win future power, his blueprint could soon become reality.