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 US President has suggested.
In an interview with The New York Times, Evan Williams says Twitter's role in Mr Trump's populist rise is "a very bad thing".
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U.S. government targets critical Twitter user
Twitter on Thursday filed a federal lawsuit to block an order by the U.S. government demanding that it reveal who is behind an account opposed to President Donald Trump's tough immigration policies.
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.
"Say you're driving down the road and see a car crash," David Streitfeld writes in his interview with Williams. "Of course you look. Everyone looks. The internet interprets behaviour like this to mean everyone is asking for car crashes, so it tries to supply them."
Williams told Streitfeld that his goal is to break this pattern: "If I learn that every time I drive down this road I'm going to see more and more car crashes, I'm going to take a different road."
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.
AP