Obama says the US is divided Views and Commentary by Sherif Monem
US President Barack Obama said he is concerned that the way people consume news may be contributing to the growing divisiveness in the country. "The biggest challenge that I think we have right now in terms of this divide is that the country receives information from completely different sources," Obama said in an interview with Rolling Stone published this week. Obama suggested the root of the problem is that some people only look to news sources that confirm their existing political views. "People are no longer talking to each other; they're just occupying their different spheres," Obama said. He also commented on the proliferation of fake news — a problem that put Facebook in the hot seat during the election. "In an internet era where we still value a free press and we don't want censorship of the internet, that's a hard problem to solve," he said. // At first, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg dismissed accusations that p...