Twitter co-founder Evan Williams recently took it upon himself to apologize to the entire world for the success President Donald Trump found using the social media platform to connect with the American people before clinching victory in the 2016 election.

Williams expressed the guilt he felt over Trump’s Twitter prowess during an interview with The New York Times published Saturday. The Twitter co-founder was asked to respond to a Trump quip in which he said the social media platform may have given him the platform he needed to defeat Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

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

“I think that maybe I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for Twitter because I get such a fake press, such a dishonest press,” Trump told Fox News host Tucker Carlson in March. “There’s been nobody in history that got more dishonest media than I’ve gotten … Twitter is a wonderful thing for me because I can get the word out.”

The president, who first joined the social media platform in 2009, currently has over 30.1 million followers on Twitter.

But Williams appeared to blanch at the notion that the platform he helped found could have contributed to the success of Trump’s unconventional presidential bid.

“It’s a very bad thing, Twitter’s role in that,” a chastened Williams told The Times. “If it’s true that he wouldn’t be president if it weren’t for Twitter, then yeah, I’m sorry.”

Just last month, the Financial Times asked the president if he regretted any of his most controversial tweets.

“I don’t regret anything, because there is nothing you can do about it. You know if you issue hundreds of tweets, and every once in a while you have a clinker, that’s not so bad,” Trump had said. “Without the tweets, I wouldn’t be here.”

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Williams told The Times that he once believed Twitter’s ability to connect the world and provide a platform for the free exchange of ideas was a good thing.

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

In direct contrast to Williams’ apology, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey offered a more measured repsonse, telling NBC’s “Today” show earlier this month that he believes “it’s really important to hear directly from our leadership.”

Although Dorsey denied any sort of “alignment” between Twitter and Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign, he insisted that Trump’s success with the platform is “more that he’s found a tool that’s useful for him.”

“And I think a lot of other people have found use in having a conversation about how he’s using it and what he thinks,” Dorsey added.