Twitter is a troublemaker: Turkish PM
ISTANBUL
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan described the microblogging website Twitter as “trouble” in a television interview today, daily Radikal has reported.
“There is a trouble called Twitter. Unmitigated lies are there [on Twitter],” Erdoğan said. “The thing that is called social media is a troublemaker in societies today.”
He criticized false tweets being posted on Twitter, saying that people were being misinformed by lies when they did not catch subsequent corrections.