奧巴馬接受哈里王子採訪 談慎用社交媒體

Former US president Barack Obama has warned against the irresponsible use of social media in an interview by British Prince Harry.

美國前總統貝拉克·奧巴馬日前在接受英國哈里王子採訪時就不負責任地使用社交媒體一事發出警告。

In the interview, which is rare since the ex-president's stepping down nearly a year ago, Obama said that the irresponsible use of social media was distorting people's understanding of complex issues, and spreading misinformation.

這位前總統卸任近一年來極少接受採訪，在這次採訪中奧巴馬錶示，不負責任地使用社交媒體會扭曲人們對複雜問題的理解，也會傳播不實信息。

Obama told Harry that one of the dangers of the internet is that people can have entirely different realities.

奧巴馬告訴哈里，互聯網的危險之一就是人們可能擁有完全不同的現實。

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They can be cocooned in information that reinforces their current biases, he added.

他補充說，他們可能會被那些加劇已有偏見的信息所束縛。

"The question has to do with how do we harness this technology in a way that allows a multiplicity of voices, allows a diversity of views, but doesn't lead to a Balkanisation of society and allows ways of finding common ground," he said.

他說道：“這個問題與我們該如何利用這種技術，讓它允許多種多樣的聲音，允許不同的觀點，但不會導致社會的巴爾幹化，並可以找到共同點有關。”

Obama's successor Donald Trump has been accused of overusing Twitter, and involved in a number of rows over his expressions in the cyber space.

奧巴馬的繼任者唐納德·特朗普曾被指濫用推特，也曾因其在網絡空間中的表達方式多次與人發生口角。