{"id":10693,"date":"2023-07-11T10:38:07","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T08:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/11\/threads-may-be-the-twitter-killer-but-let-the-user-beware-margaret-sullivan\/"},"modified":"2023-07-11T10:38:07","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T08:38:07","slug":"threads-may-be-the-twitter-killer-but-let-the-user-beware-margaret-sullivan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/11\/threads-may-be-the-twitter-killer-but-let-the-user-beware-margaret-sullivan\/","title":{"rendered":"Threads may be the \u2018Twitter killer.\u2019 But let the user beware | Margaret Sullivan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can 100 million new users be wrong? You bet<\/p>\n<p>I signed up for Threads the other day, somewhat against my better judgment. After all, Threads doesn\u2019t have the best blood lines; nothing in its lineage suggests that it will be the secretariat of social media good behavior or ethics.<\/p>\n<p>It is the spawn of Meta, which we still might know as Facebook if Mark Zuckerberg and his brain trust hadn\u2019t decided to rename their behemoth after its many reputation-damaging misdeeds. Those include allowing users\u2019 data to leak out, as well as distributing untold amounts of hate and lies and ultimately, giving Donald Trump an invaluable helping hand in his disastrous 2016 election by spreading Russian disinformation. (Recall, too, the scandal surrounding Facebook\u2019s relationship with the political data firm Cambridge Analytica.)<\/p>\n<p>Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist writing on media, politics and culture<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2023\/jul\/11\/sign-up-threads-100-million-users-judgement-elon-musk-mark-zuckerberg\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/fba5c81a20d6f6effdf47e89d24df7f498aff8af\/0_0_5000_3002\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=5e59bdd4aecfc6a933a63f4cd894f31f\" title=\"Threads may be the \u2018Twitter killer.\u2019 But let the user beware | Margaret Sullivan\" \/>Can 100 million new users be wrong? You bet<br \/>\nI signed up for Threads the other day, somewhat against my better judgment. After all, Threads doesn\u2019t have the best blood lines; nothing in its lineage suggests that it will be the secretariat of social media good behavior or ethics.<br \/>\nIt is the spawn of Meta, which we still might know as Facebook if Mark Zuckerberg and his brain trust hadn\u2019t decided to rename their behemoth after its many reputation-damaging misdeeds. Those include allowing users\u2019 data to leak out, as well as distributing untold amounts of hate and lies and ultimately, giving Donald Trump an invaluable helping hand in his disastrous 2016 election by spreading Russian disinformation. (Recall, too, the scandal surrounding Facebook\u2019s relationship with the political data firm Cambridge Analytica.)<br \/>\nMargaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist writing on media, politics and culture Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can 100 million new users be wrong? You bet I signed up for Threads the other day, somewhat against my better judgment. After all, Threads doesn\u2019t have the best blood lines; nothing in its lineage suggests that it will be the secretariat of social media good behavior or ethics. It is the spawn of Meta, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/11\/threads-may-be-the-twitter-killer-but-let-the-user-beware-margaret-sullivan\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Threads may be the \u2018Twitter killer.\u2019 But let the user beware | Margaret Sullivan<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10693"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}