Meta's Threads app already facing backlash for 'silencing' conservatives days after launch

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Meta's new 'Twitter killer' Threads app is already appearing to censor conservatives just a few days after it hit the online bazaar.

Evercore ISI senior managing director Mark Mahaney joined ‘Varney & Co.’ to survey the markets and discuss Meta’s latest app ‘Threads,’ which is intended to compete with Twitter.

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.

Libs of TikTok’s post stating "Non-binary isn’t real" was removed by Threads under the platform’s "hate speech or symbols" guidelines. Thursday evening, saying the message "was an error and shouldn’t have happened" and that it had been "fixed."

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