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Threads isn’t for news and politics, says Instagram’s boss (www.theverge.com)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Make no mistake threads will still be political. It's not like they're gonna start banning people for linking CNN articles.

But I bet dollars to donuts when they do ban people for whatever they consider 'too much' it's not gonna come down failry will it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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.

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The Instagram boss later clarified his initial response, stating that while Threads won’t “discourage or down-rank news or politics,” it won’t “court” them as Facebook has in the past. “If we are honest, we were too quick to promise too much to the industry on Facebook in the early 2010s, and it would be a mistake to repeat that,” Mosseri said.

Step 1: "If we just ignore the 800 pound gorilla in the room it will go away, so anyone discussing the gorilla will be banned."

Step 2: "Nobody could have known there was an 800 pound gorilla running around breaking people's arms! To better protect our customers we've seized control of everyone's arms. [High fives all around]."