Former Secretary of State John Kerry, who previously served as the Biden-Harris administration’s “climate czar,” admitted during a recent World Economic Forum meeting last week that the First Amendment is a “major block” to removing “disinformation” in the United States.
During the World Economic Forum Sustainable Development Impact Meetings, which took place on Wednesday in New York City, Kerry claimed that the “dislike of and anguish over social media is just growing and growing and growing.” The influential Democrat claimed that the issue of social media is a “problem” in democracies because it is difficult “building consensus around any issue.” He added, “It’s really hard to govern today.”
Kerry referenced the time period before social media where “referees” used to “determine what’s a fact and what isn’t a fact.” The former secretary of state claimed that the media referees had been “eviscerated to a certain degree” with the rise of social media.
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“There’s a lot of discussion now about how you curb those entities in order to guarantee that you’re going to have, you know, some accountability on facts,” Kerry said. “But look, if people go to only one source, and the source they go to is sick, and, you know, has an agenda, and they’re putting out disinformation, our First Amendment stands as a major block to the ability to be able to just, you know, hammer it out of existence.”
Kerry added that “we need to win the ground” and “win the right to govern” by winning enough votes in the upcoming election to “be able to implement change.”
Asked about the future of democracies across the world, Kerry claimed that democracies were “very challenged right now” and that democracies “have not proven they can move fast enough or big enough” to handle the challenges facing the world. He added, “And to me, that is part of what this race, this election is all about. Will we break the fever in the United States?”
Kerry’s recent comments at the World Economic Forum were met with widespread criticism on social media. Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk tweeted, “John Kerry is saying he wants to violate the Constitution.” Meanwhile, former 2024 independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote, “John Kerry is correct. The 1st Amendment DOES stand as a major roadblock to them right now.”
