Twitter is a troublemaker: Turkish PM

June 03 2013 13:07:00

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.

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