Mark Zuckerberg’s new Threads app, billed by some as the “Twitter-killer,” has barely launched and it’s already being accused of censoring speech.
The Meta CEO’s new platform has racked up 70 million sign-ups within a day of its launch, apparently putting it on track to threaten the dominance of Elon Musk’s Twitter.
“70 million sign ups on Threads as of this morning, ” Mr. Zuckerberg said in a post on his Threads account. “That’s way beyond our expectations.”
Some analysts say Mr. Zuckerberg’s new offering, which has been described as a text-based version of the photo-sharing app Instagram, could be a big headache for Twitter, which has threatened to sue Meta over what it described as a “copycat” app that exploited Twitter’s trade secrets and intellectual property to accelerate its development….