Evan Williams, co-founder of Twitter, apologized to the mass for using their
platform in aiding Donald Trump rise to the white house. In an interview with
the New York Times on Saturday, he said that he recently learned that President
Trump said he believes Twitter put him in the White house.
Vanguard reports…
“It’s a very bad thing, Twitter’s role in that,” he said. “If it’s true
that he wouldn’t be president if it weren’t for Twitter, then yeah, I’m sorry.”
The White House did not respond to a request for a comment
on Williams’ statement, the Times reported. The 45-year-old Silicon
Valley entrepreneur criticized the internet for rewarding extremes
calling it “broken.”
Williams said that he was wrong for thinking that the world
would be a better place if there was a platform for everyone to freely speak
and exchange ideas.
In commencement speech at the University
of Nebraska
“some would say that’s what we deserve for giving the power of tweets
to Donald Trump.”
Trump has often used Twitter to dispute reports seen in the
news. Recently, Trump took to the social media platform to deny that he or his
campaign had any involvement with Russia
in influencing the results of the presidential election.
On May 12 he tweeted “Again, the
story that there was collusion between the Russians and Trump campaign was
fabricated by Dems as an excuse for losing the election.
” He tweeted again later this
week calling the media’s reporting of the matter the “single greatest witch
hunt of a politician in American history.”
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