Hillary Clinton quipped Friday that should would choose to be the CEO of Facebook if given the opportunity.
The former presidential candidate made the comment while speaking with Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey as she accepted Harvard’s Radcliffe Award.
“If you could be a CEO of any company right now, what would you choose?” Healy asked.
“Facebook,” Clinton answered without hesitation before explaining why she thinks Facebook plays a critical role in our democracy.
“I just wanna add, it’s the biggest news platform in the world,” Clinton said.
“Now Facebook is trying to take on some of the unexpected consequences of their business model, and I hope they get it right because it really is critical to our democracy that people get accurate information on which to make decisions,” she added.
Clinton has blamed the influence of fake news and Russian bots on Facebook, among other factors, for her loss of the 2016 presidential election.
The former secretary of state also took her case to Twitter recently, calling on social media platforms to “get this right, and fast,” so systematic changes to elections don’t “happen again.”
We should all care about how social media platforms play a part in our democratic process. Because unless it’s addressed it will happen again. The midterms are in 8 months. We owe it to our democracy to get this right, and fast. https://t.co/aM3pRrZW4J
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) February 27, 2018
