Hillary Clinton arrives to speak during her California primary night rally held in the Brooklyn borough of New York, June 7, 2016. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called "fake news" a danger that must be addressed quickly, in a rare public appearance on Thursday, a month after she lost the presidential election in a campaign marked by a flood of such propaganda.
"We must stand up for our democracy," Clinton said during a tribute to retiring Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, referring to what she called "the epidemic of malicious fake news and false propaganda that flooded social media over the past year."
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