Obama talks social media

FORMER US president Barack Obama has told Prince Harry in an interview people in leadership roles must be careful in their use of social media.

He did not directly mention his successor, Donald Trump, who has made Twitter use a centrepiece of his presidency.

“All of us in leadership have to find ways to recreate a common space on the internet,” he said. “One of the dangers of the internet is people can have entirely different realities.

“They can be just cocooned in information that reinforces their current biases.”

He spoke with Harry in the prince’s capacity as guest editor of a BBC radio program.