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Africa-Press – Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>Mark Zuckerberg has pitched Meta\u2019s Twitter copycat app, Threads, as a \u201cfriendly\u201d refuge for public discourse online, framing it in sharp distinction to the more adversarial Twitter which is owned by billionaire Elon Musk.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are definitely focusing on kindness and making this a friendly place,\u201d Meta CEO Zuckerberg said on Wednesday, shortly after the service\u2019s launch.<\/p>\n

Maintaining that idealistic vision for Threads \u2013 which attracted more than 70 million users in its first two days \u2013 is another story. To be sure, Meta Platforms is no newbie at managing the rage-baiting, smut-posting internet hordes.<\/p>\n

The company said it would hold users of the new Threads app to the same rules it maintains on its photo and video sharing social media service, Instagram.<\/p>\n

The Facebook and Instagram owner also has been actively embracing an algorithmic approach to serving up content, which gives it greater control over the type of fare that does well as it tries to steer more toward entertainment and away from news.<\/p>\n

However, by hooking up Threads with other social media services like Mastodon, and given the appeal of microblogging to news junkies, politicians and other fans of rhetorical combat, Meta is also courting fresh challenges with Threads and seeking to chart a new path through them.<\/p>\n

For starters, the company will not extend its existing fact-checking program to Threads, spokesperson Christine Pai said in an emailed statement on Thursday. This eliminates a distinguishing feature of how Meta has managed misinformation on its other apps.<\/p>\n

Pai added that posts on Facebook or Instagram rated as false by fact-checking partners \u2013 which include a unit at Reuters \u2013 will carry their labels over if posted on Threads too. Asked by Reuters to explain why it was taking a different approach to misinformation on Threads, Meta declined to answer.<\/p>\n

In a New York Times podcast on Thursday, Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, acknowledged that Threads was more \u201csupportive of public discourse\u201d than Meta\u2019s other services and therefore more inclined to draw a news-focused crowd, but said the company aimed to focus on lighter subjects like sports, music, fashion and design.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, Meta\u2019s ability to distance itself from controversy was challenged immediately. Within hours of launch, Threads accounts seen by Reuters were posting about the Illuminati and \u201cbillionaire satanists,\u201d while other users compared each other to Nazis and battled over everything from gender identity to violence in the West Bank.<\/p>\n

Conservative personalities, including the son of former U. S. President Donald Trump, complained of censorship after labels appeared warning would-be followers that they had posted false information. Another Meta spokesperson said those labels were an error.<\/p>\n

Further challenges in moderating content are in store once Meta links Threads to the so-called fediverse, where users from servers operated by other non-Meta entities will be able to communicate with Threads users. Meta\u2019s Pai said Instagram\u2019s rules would likewise apply to those users.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf an account or server, or if we find many accounts from a particular server, is found violating our rules then they would be blocked from accessing Threads, meaning that server\u2019s content would no longer appear on Threads and vice versa,\u201d she said. Still, researchers specializing in online media said the devil would be in the details of how Meta approaches those interactions.<\/p>\n

Alex Stamos, the director of the Stanford Internet Observatory and former head of security at Meta, posted on Threads that the company would face greater challenges in performing key types of content moderation enforcement without access to back-end data about users who post banned content.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith federation, the metadata that big platforms use to tie accounts to a single actor or detect abusive behavior at scale aren\u2019t available,\u201d said Stamos.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is going to make stopping spammers, troll farms, and economically driven abusers much harder.<\/p>\n

In his posts, he said he expected Threads to limit the visibility of fediverse servers with large numbers of abusive accounts and apply harsher penalties for those posting illegal materials like child pornography.<\/p>\n

Even so, the interactions themselves raise challenges. \u201cThere are some really weird complications that arise once you start to think about illegal stuff,\u201d said Solomon Messing of the Center for Social Media and Politics at New York University.<\/p>\n

He cited examples like child exploitation, nonconsensual sexual imagery and arms sales. \u201cIf you run into that kind of material while you\u2019re indexing content (from other servers), do you have a responsibility beyond just blocking it from Threads?\u201d Reporting by Katie Paul in San Francisco Editing by Kenneth Li and Matthew Lewis<\/p>\n

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