The disclosure comes less than a week after Meta launched Threads, which is widely seen as similar to the microblogging site Twitter
, owner of Facebook and Instagram, plans to label government-affiliated media accounts on its new Twitter-like platform Threads, an executive told an Australian inquiry on foreign interference on Tuesday.
Asked if Russian state-affiliated broadcaster RT or Chinese government-affiliated publisher Xinhua News Agency would be tagged accordingly on Threads, Machin said, “that’s our aspiration.” RT’s Threads account lacked such a label when Reuters checked on Tuesday, while Xinhua did not appear to have a Threads account.
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