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posted by martyb on Tuesday May 23 2017, @12:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the closing-the-barn-door dept.

If anyone knows how important Twitter is to Donald Trump, it's the president.

“Without the tweets, I wouldn't be here,” he told the Financial Times last month.

To which Twitter's co-founder says: Sorry about that, world.

Evan Williams, who still sits on the company's board of directors, recently told The New York Times that he wants to repair the damage he thinks Twitter and the broader Internet have wrought on society in the form of trolls, cyberbullies, live-streamed violence, fake news and — yes — Trump.

“I thought once everybody could speak freely and exchange information and ideas, the world is automatically going to be a better place,” Williams told the Times. “I was wrong about that.”

“If it’s true that he wouldn’t be president if it weren’t for Twitter, then yeah, I’m sorry,” he said.

Is Twitter responsible?


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  • (Score: 2) by Sulla on Wednesday May 24 2017, @02:05AM

    by Sulla (5173) on Wednesday May 24 2017, @02:05AM (#514623) Journal

    While she herself might not have used it correctly, the Correct the Record PAC used it to great effectiveness. Both sides did more work trying to disenfranchise the other side than they did trying to win people to their own. I think in the end Trump did a little better because he didn't act entitled, but not by far.

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