Don’t blame Twitter for an atomic president

Barack Obama was also on Twitter, and chose not to use it to troll American democracy.
Donald Trump speaking with supporters at a campaign rally at the Phoenix Convention Center in Arizona last October.
Like Albert Einstein exclaiming “Woe is me” on hearing of the bombing of Hiroshima, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams is shocked and appalled at what his invention has wrought. “It’s a very bad thing, Twitter’s role in that,” Williams lamented, in a recent New York Times intervi...

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