Twitter’s rival Threads launched by Meta, under scrutiny by US House Judiciary
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San Francisco: Twitter's new rival , Meta's Threads is coming under scrutiny by US House Judiciary tot he extent of the micro-blogging site's content moderation practices.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been asked to submit documents regarding content moderation in his newly launched platform, Threads. House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan wrote in a letter to Zuckerberg that “Threads raises serious, specific concerns because it has been marketed as a rival of Elon Musk’s Twitter, which has faced political persecution from the Biden Administration following Musk’s commitment to free speech.”
Meta is yet to respond to this letter, leaving unclarified whether Threads will follow the same community guidelines adopted by Instagram, which the government will moderate or whether Threads will enforce a whole new set of regulatory guidelines.
Despite a large number of signups, this rival platform has witnessed a fall in screen time by 50%. Since the launch of the platform a few weeks ago, the number of active users have declined by 20%. With a steep reduction in an average screen time of 20 minutes per day to just 10 minutes, the success of Threads, despite phenomenal enthusiasm at the beginning by users, as shown by its acquired 150 million signups.within weeks of launch, seems to stand at risk.
Data from Similarweb showed a drop of more than 25 per cent in daily active users on Android phones globally.
Meta executives, however, have made it clear that they don’t want news and politics to dominate the conversation on Threads.
However, Zuckerberg says that Threads is doing better than what they expected and that "10s of millions of people now come back daily" to the platform. With newer updates and features, the platform is expected to stand a real chance against Twitter.
(Based on IANS feed)