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Barack Obama: “When I started my presidential campaign, the two dominant…”

Featuring: Barack Obama, Democratic | 44th President of the United States | National

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Barack Obama Discusses Leadership, Democracy, and AI at Hamilton College

Published | Video Starts at 42:41

They just press a button and then, huh, they can send money too. Okay, let's try it out. But I always tell this story about one of the changes that happened in terms of social media. When I started my presidential campaign, the two dominant social media platforms were MySpace and Meetup. And they were, you know, you weren't getting fancy videos through this thing, right? I mean this is like buffering and weird sounds coming out of the phone and all that stuff. (42:41–42:53)

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Asserts that MySpace and Meetup were the dominant social media platforms at the start of his presidential campaign.

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