A Meta official told Don Jr. that the move was a mistake and that the misinformation warning label was removed.
new “Twitter killer” app Threads quickly found itself embroiled in a censorship controversy after warning users that Donald Trump Jr. may be a source of misinformation — before the firm quickly backtracked.
Don Jr. posted a screenshot of the warning on rival Twitter on Thursday and called out the Instagram and Facebook boss.“Hey Instagram, threads is verbal, so the whole skimpy bikini thing is not going to work so well if your influencers can’t actually formulate a sentence… IMHO you may want to rethink cutting off those who can.”
The social media giant had banned Donald Trump from Instagram and Facebook for two years following the Jan. 6 riots.Skeptics weren’t buying Stone’s claim that this was an innocent mistake.Another commenter wrote: “Yeah but it did happen and we know where Zuckerberg’s loyalties lie.”
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