San Francisco – A co-founder of Twitter says he’s sorry if the popular social media platform helped put Donald Trump in the White House, as the president has suggested.
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In an interview (http://nyti.ms/2qGcKkm ) with The New York Times, Evan Williams says Twitter’s role in Trump’s populist rise is “a very bad thing.”
The president has credited Twitter with his election to the highest office in the land.
When confronted with that notion, Williams said: “If it’s true that he wouldn’t be president if it weren’t for Twitter, then yeah, I’m sorry.”
The 45-year-old Silicon Valley entrepreneur also said the internet is obviously broken because it rewards extremes.
Williams also says he was wrong thinking that the world would be a better place if there was a platform for everyone to freely speak and exchange ideas.
Would he be sorry if it helped Hillary win also ? What’s wrong with social media helping someone democratically elected win ? Shouldn’t he be proud that his platform helped support free speech ? Or are liberals only or free speech when it’s pro democrates like in college campuses ??
Liberals are hypocrites
I guess Libs want only their ideas on twitter to help them. What a socialist phony!
He’s a Stalinist. He thinks the free expression of ideas is not a good thing.