Tag: Threads

Is New Meta App ‘Threads’ Overhyped as a Twitter Replacement?

Facebook parent Meta plans to release a new Twitter rival app, called Threads. It will allow users to retain followers from photo-sharing platform Instagram. It’s essentially Instagram’s text-based conversation app. Will Meta’s new app pose a threat to Elon Musk’s Twitter? NTD speaks with Andrew Selepak, social media professor at the University of Florida. …


Beijing Disinformation Campaigns Rapidly Involving, Says META

Meta has told an Australian government inquiry that Beijing-run disinformation campaigns are rapidly evolving and are moving to create stir up social disunity in targeted nations. Under questioning, Meta head of Public Policy in Australia, Josh Machin, revealed that 51 percent of the Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior (CIB) networks that were known, by Meta,  to originate from…