Sat Jul 8, 2023 – 12:49 pm EDT
(Children’s Health Defense) — 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.
“But have no fear all, hope for censorship isn’t lost,” journalist Kim Iversen told viewers of “The Kim Iversen Show,” “because yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg‘s Twitter knockoff, Threads, was unveiled and it immediately began censoring users.”
Iversen reported the app was released with much fanfare, but she said she doubts it will become a real competitor to Twitter for several reasons.
First, she said, the user base for an app like Threads is different from that of Twitter.
Threads is based on Instagram, which is a “very visual medium,” whereas Twitter is for writers, comedians and people who prefer to communicate via written text. The two platforms serve different purposes, she said, so it isn’t clear why people would transfer from Twitter to Threads.
“I like looking at the makeup posts and the fashion and the food and the cats [on Instagram],” she said, “but I don’t know
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