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Meta's Threads app already facing backlash for 'silencing' conservatives days after launch
FOXBusiness ^ | July 7, 2023 | Houston Keene

Posted on 07/07/2023 8:38:11 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Social media giant Meta’s new "Twitter killer" Threads app is already facing backlash for appearing to censor conservative users, just days after its launch.

Meta’s new app that aims to take over parts of Twitter’s microblog market share hit the digital bazaar this week, garnering millions of signups shortly after launch.

It didn’t take long, though, for the new Meta platform to get accusations of censorship from conservatives.

"I posted a meme about Twitter being better than Threads, and they removed it after ONE MINUTE for ‘incitement to violence,’" conservative commentator Ashley St. Clair tweeted with four laughing emojis.

St. Clair included a screenshot of her Threads post that had been removed for "going against" the platform’s "guidelines on violence and incitement."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ciasocialmedia; doa; freespeech; iap; libsoftiktok; meta; milesdavis; socialmedia; suckerberg; technofascism; threads; zuckerberg

1 posted on 07/07/2023 8:38:11 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Is ANYONE surprised? Be surprised at the Sun for shining.


2 posted on 07/07/2023 8:47:28 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

Your post!!!


3 posted on 07/07/2023 8:50:54 PM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III
Threads app already facing backlash for 'silencing' conservatives days after launch

This was the whole point.

4 posted on 07/07/2023 8:51:16 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: All

Not only does it ‘silence’ conservatives... it reports them to the FBI/ DOJ.


5 posted on 07/07/2023 8:57:05 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: MinorityRepublican

Was there ever any doubt? Leftards flocked to it because Musk is allowing a fairly free speech platform again, and they screeched about it.
Pinkos want nothing more than domination over everything and everyone.


6 posted on 07/07/2023 9:13:13 PM PDT by vpintheak (There is no Trans. There is only mentally ill)
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Everybody back to your echo chambers!


7 posted on 07/07/2023 9:31:44 PM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Elon Musk and the Twitter lawyers filed a cease and desist order yesterday on the opening day of Meta’s worthless knockoff of Twitter. And Meta got 2 million libtards to sign up yesterday by spamming their Instagram customers for two months before. Twitter accuses them of all kinds of illegal practices, like they stole Twitter employees with that had proprietary information, they stole them so they could jump start the app and increase their chances of beating Twitter in the numbers of subscribers and reach of followers. But the best point is these employees have violated their terms of separation and that gives Twitter cause to not honor the generous payouts that are still collecting checks from Silicon Valley. Lol


8 posted on 07/07/2023 10:31:55 PM PDT by BullDog108 (A Smith & Wesson beats four aces!)
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To: BullDog108
Elon Musk and the Twitter lawyers filed a cease and desist order yesterday on the opening day of Meta’s worthless knockoff of Twitter.

The EU is lukewarm on Threads. Not only that but 50% of the market in the U.S. is not going to use Threads. What's Zuck trying to do here? We know he's a communist.

9 posted on 07/07/2023 10:40:12 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

I picked up a new phone last week.

It’s still thread bare.


10 posted on 07/07/2023 10:51:41 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

And, if you cancel you Threads account, you also automatically lose your Instagram account; they are that closely integrated.


11 posted on 07/07/2023 11:09:19 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Why are there so many more horse's @33es than horses?)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Why is any “conservative” on a HeilZuck product?


12 posted on 07/08/2023 2:37:32 AM PDT by Adder (ALL Democrats are the enemy. NO QUARTER!!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Which means the left will love it.


13 posted on 07/08/2023 4:53:53 AM PDT by pas
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To: vpintheak
Pinkos want nothing more than domination over everything and everyone.

Pinkos need someone to dominate. If Threads is just a Leftist echo chamber,they will get bored and leave too.

14 posted on 07/08/2023 4:55:12 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (The rot of all principle begins with a single compromise.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Then you get ijits like this person who has a radio show in Seattle. Amazing. https://mynorthwest.com/3906686/russell-threads-is-giving-us-the-opportunity-to-reshape-social-media/


15 posted on 07/08/2023 6:41:32 AM PDT by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Live Free!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

All the redundant lib extwitter dei employees found work.


16 posted on 07/08/2023 6:43:37 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: MinorityRepublican

It’s pretty simple. Twitter used to be the primary means of communication for leftists to plan, strategize, and coordinate (see its usage during the “color revolutions”). It was developed, funded, and supported by the US Deep State (alphabet agencies), and was a vital part of their communications strategies. Well, after Elon bought it, the DS still needs some comm systems to serve the same purpose, and Zuckerberg is already neck-deep with the Deep State. Once they can drive conservative voices off, they can use Threads to plan and direct leftist orgs (like antifa), and they will use it to convince businesses that the radical left is a majority via their Threads responses (which is one of the ways they used Twitter).


17 posted on 07/08/2023 7:07:56 AM PDT by Charles H. (The_r0nin) (Hwaet! Lar bith maest hord, sothlice!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Any dealings with Meta is shady at best.

A guy who cheats his partner out of the start up of a company is a sure omen.

No question why he’s pure democrat.


18 posted on 07/08/2023 7:46:17 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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