It looks like Meta is distancing itself — and users — from political content even more. It's easy to see why. Social media sites have been rife with misinformation and disinformation during past ...

Meta doesn’t want its new app Threads to become another Twitter, full of heated political debates and the resulting toxicity that entails. In an announcement today, the company detailed how it will ...

Launched in 2023, Threads is a microblogging platform owned by Meta, the parent company of Instagram. Because of this connection, and because the company wants its existing user base to start using ...

Tama Leaver receives funding from the Australian Research Council. He is a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child. Meta’s Instagram and Threads apps are “slowly” ...

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Instagram Threads is rolling out users’ most-requested feature to date: the ability to message people directly, without having to switch to another app, like Instagram. The company said direct ...