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Pro-Censorship Activists Upset ‘Threads’ Isn’t Censoring More Aggressively

This photo, taken in New York, Thursday, July 6, 2023, shows Meta's new app Threads. Meta unveiled the app to rival Twitter, targeting users looking for an alternative to the social media platform owned — and frequently changed — by Elon Musk. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
  • Threads, the new pro-censorship social media app from Facebook’s parent company Meta, is being hit with complaints from anti-free speech activists that it isn’t doing enough to censor so-called “disinformation.”
  • Meta recently launched Threads as a pro-censorship rival to Elon Musk’s pro-free speech Twitter. Despite an initial boost on its launch, Threads has tanked in daily users amid complaints of negative experiences.
  • However, despite the authoritarian restrictions on Threads, pro-censorship activists are demanding that Meta does more to crack down on the free speech of its remaining users.
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