And Mr. Obama has been paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for speeches in the United States and around the world. Mr. Obama has long expressed concerns about how the flow of information — and misinformation — has the power to shape public opinion. Last December, at a forum in New Delhi, Mr. Obama conceded that “If I watch Fox News, I wouldn’t vote for me. But Mr. Obama has particularly close ties to Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s chief content officer. And Reed Hastings, the chief executive of Netflix, was close to Mr. Obama while he was president and an attendee at state dinners.

Source: New York Times March 09, 2018 01:07 UTC