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Instagram boss Adam Mosseri also emphasized: “The goal of threads is not to replace Twitter”. They want to create a place for those who would never have engaged on Twitter – as well as the users who were looking for a “place for conversations with less anger”, he wrote in threads over the weekend. Mosseri made it clear that Meta has no ambitions to make Threads a platform for politics or news. Posts about this would inevitably appear on the service – “but we will not do anything to promote these topics”. With sports, music, fashion and entertainment there are enough other topics for a lively platform, wrote Mosseri.
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