Hillary: "I think Jeff Bezos saved the Washington Post."

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/31/hillary-clinton-at-code-conference-jeff-bezos-saved-the-washington-post.html

Clinton spoke from the annual Code Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. She hinted that more tech billionaires should buy media companies and fund investigative journalism, the way Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post. She said it's wrong to dismiss print news as an "ancient" medium, especially amid reports about the spread of misinformation on social media.

"I think Jeff Bezos saved The Washington Post," Clinton said. "But newspapers, like the Post, the Journal, the Times, others — still drive news. ... It was a very good use of his financial resources. Because now we have a very good newspaper again operating in Washington, and driving news elsewhere."

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Clinton said platforms like Facebook need to get better at curating news. The company has aggressively worked toward curbing misuse on its platform, including "false amplifiers" of political stances.

"I have a lot of sympathy for the people making these decisions," Clinton said of executives at places like Facebook and Twitter. "I just urge them to hurry up."