Instagram CEO says Threads does not intend to replace Twitter 

Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri has claimed Meta’s newly released text-based app Threads is not meant to replace Twitter.

Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri has claimed that Meta’s newly released text-based app Threads is not meant to replace Twitter and instead caters to communities which did not feel at home on Twitter.

In a Threads interaction with The Verge’s editor Alex Heath on Sunday, Mosseri said that the new platform’s goal was to make a “public square” for Instagram communities which did not “embrace” Twitter, or serve communities which wanted a less angry space for interactions.

“Politics and hard news are inevitably going to show up on Threads - they have on Instagram as well to some extent - but we’re not going to do anything to encourage those verticals,” he said in his Threads reply.

Responding to users’ fears that news content would be made harder to access on Threads, Mosseri clarified that while news and politics would not be censored, Meta would not “court” such content the way it had in the past.

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More countries are considering making Meta pay news publishers for showing their content on its platforms and services. Canada’s Online News Act, which became a law last month, made Meta and Google decide to pull Canadian publishers’ news content from their platforms.

“If we are honest, we were too quick to promise too much to the industry on Facebook in the early 2010s, and it would be a mistake to repeat that...” said Mosseri on Threads.