Evening Edition: Could Meta's 'Threads' Replace Twitter?

The Fox News Rundown

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Politics, Daily News, News

3.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Many social media platforms have tried to take on Elon Musk's Twitter and now Mark Zuckerberg's Meta has launched 'Threads', another app of text-based postings. Despite a somewhat bumpy rollout and some claims of censorship, could 'Threads' become a 'Twitter killer'? FOX's Eben Brown spoke with Kelly O'Grady, FOX Business Network correspondent, about this latest challenge to Twitter and whether or not it will succeed. Click Here To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.1	I'm Martha McCallum, and this is The Fox News rundown.
0:38.9	Thursday, July 6, 2023, I'm Evan Brown.
0:43.3	Twitter is now facing a new competitor from the people behind Facebook.
0:48.5	Will Meta's Threads app divide and conquer it?
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