Obama: Attacks hurt Clinton ‘no matter how false they are’

President Obama on Monday lamented the spread of fake news on sites such as Facebook, saying false reports have unfairly damaged Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid.

“The way campaigns have gotten, we’ve come to accept crazy stuff as normal,” Obama said at a rally for Clinton in New Hampshire.

{mosads}“You see this strategy of just repeating attacks and outright lies and it gets churned in social media and Facebook,” he added. “And no matter how false they are, they just create this cloud of dust.”

Obama has vociferously defended Clinton during the final stretch of the campaign, but he suggested he could have gone further in disputing some of the false attacks against her.

“I’ve had to bite my lip and just listen to some of the nonsense that’s been said about Hillary,” the president said. “I know Hillary, I ran against Hillary. She worked for me, this is someone who has worked to make this country better.”

The president’s final push for Clinton came amid a renewed controversy surrounding the former secretary of State’s private email server.

FBI Director James Comey sent a letter to Congress Sunday saying the new review of emails found on former Rep. Anthony Weiner’s (D-N.Y.) computer wouldn’t lead to charges against Clinton.

But the buzz surrounding the FBI’s probes of Clinton has sparked some erroneous reporting.

Fox News anchor Brett Baier apologized last week for saying on air that the bureau’s investigation of the Clinton Foundation was “likely” to yield an indictment.

A BuzzFeed investigation last month found that 38 percent of all posts on three popular right-wing Facebook pages contained false or misleading information. The same could be said for 19 percent of posts on three leading left-wing pages.