Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Tag: In Bid to Compete With Twitter

In Bid to Compete With Twitter, Zuckerberg Launches Social Media App That ‘Collects All Your Data and Follows You Everywhere’

by Brenda Baletti, Ph.D., Childrens Health Defense:

Commenting on the new app — Threads — Journalist Kim Iversen said Zuckerberg is not “socially savvy, so I don’t know if he fully understands … why [people] want a censorship-free platform.”

One day after a federal judge temporarily barred key Biden administration officials and federal agencies from communicating with social media platforms about censoring specific online content, Mark Zuckerberg launched Threads — Meta’s new social media platform intended to compete with Twitter.