Clone wars: Meta’s Threads takes on Twitter
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 6 July 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
If there is one thing Facebook’s parent company does well, it is aping other social-media features and platforms—and it is a propitious time to steal Twitter’s thunder. Deeply indebted Arab countries desperately need loans from the IMF, but have good reasons to balk at the fund’s terms (10:00). And New Yorkers love their invasive parakeets; the birds’ enormous nests, less so (18:41).
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| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. I'm your host, Jason |
| 0:38.0 | Palmer. Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping |
| 0:42.9 | your world. A number of Arab states are deeply in debt albeit for different |
| 0:51.4 | reasons. We examine Egypt, Lebanon, and Tunisia as case studies in why going to |
| 0:57.1 | the IMF for help isn't the obvious solution that it once was. And how about |
| 1:03.9 | going on safari? In Brooklyn, to spot parakeets. We look at just one of America's |
| 1:11.2 | thousands of invasive species, one that builds nests so large they've become a |
| 1:15.7 | genuine fire hazard. |
| 1:18.7 | But first... |
| 1:32.9 | Elon Musk, you just never know what kind of crazy thing the owner of Twitter is |
| 1:38.0 | going to say next, which my guess is the way he wants it. But this recent one in a |
| 1:43.0 | tweet about the boss of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, I'm up for a cage match if he is |
| 1:48.0 | lol. Well, he is. The reply send me location. Then Musk again, Vegas Octagon. Can you |
| 1:56.0 | imagine it? |
| 1:59.0 | In this corner, Mark Zuckerberg, 39 years old, five foot seven inches tall, self-proclaimed |
| 2:04.2 | wizard of Jiu Jitsu. In this corner, Elon Musk, 13 years older, six inches taller and |
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