Could we ban Twitter posts here?

[Emrys]

73. Threads is not intended for sharing news stories, in fact it's discouraged.

Threads is also pretty heinous in its own way.

Threads is not for news coverage:

Threads isn’t for news and politics, says Instagram’s boss

Instagram’s new Threads app is “not going to do anything to encourage” politics and “hard news,” Instagram boss Adam Mosseri said in a Threads conversation with The Verge’s Alex Heath.

The additional scrutiny, negativity, and integrity risks that come with politics and hard news aren’t worth the “incremental engagement or revenue,” Mosseri wrote. “There are more than enough amazing communities — sports, music, fashion, beauty, entertainment, etc. — to make a vibrant platform without needing to get into politics or hard news.” (Mosseri’s strong point of view here is likely informed by his time running Facebook’s News Feed.)

In recent years, Meta has distanced itself from news and politics, including reducing the amount of political content that users see on Facebook. It even dropped “News” from the name of the Facebook Feed last year. The company also responded to a new Canadian law that would require it to pay for local news by saying it will yank news from Facebook and Instagram in the country.
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Still, it seems inevitable that politics and news will trickle onto Threads in some way, especially if politicians and journalists use the platform during the 2024 presidential election cycle. And Instagram is working on a feed just for people you follow and a chronological feed, which, at least for me, should make Threads a much more useful place to find news. But it sounds like Instagram won’t be going out of its way to make Threads what Twitter once was — so don’t get your hopes up for some kind of Thread-Deck.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/7/23787334/instagram-threads-news-politics-adam-mosseri-meta-facebook

From Mosseri himself:




From: https://x.com/faineg/status/1677383144981291034

About Zuckerberg's attitude:

Librarian Capital
@LibrarianCap

Reminder: Zuckerberg has said clearly in the past that he wanted to reduce the amount of political content on $META services

“People don’t want politics and fighting to take over their experience on our services” - Q4 2020 call

Threads may not be designed to be news-friendly

From: https://x.com/LibrarianCap/status/1677080064855293952

As for Threads being heinous, see this earlier post of mine:

Threads censors support for Ukraine [includes some tweets + transcripts] - https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218071593