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Big news today. We are launching threads, an open and friendly public space for conversations.

It takes the best parts of the Instagram experience and creates a

whole new app around text, ideas and sharing what's on your mind. That was Mark Zuckerberg.

Threads user, number one, announcing his new platform designed to knock Twitter of its previously

unassailable perch. This story is a parable of our age. Men of unbelievable wealth,

unbelievable power, unbelievable influence, locking battle. These are men worth three hundred and

fifty billion dollars between them. If these two men were an economy, a country, there'd be about the 40th

biggest economy in the world. Whoever wins, if anyone wins, it will have reverberations on our culture,

on our politics, on the tapestry of our lives. Can threads unpick Twitter? And if so, what does it mean? It's Lewis here. Welcome to the

newsagents. The news agents. This content that will solicit a reaction, something that may include

something that is slightly racist or slightly sexist

those kinds of those kinds of things so you think if something is slightly sexist

it should be banned right can you name one example I honestly don't you

honestly I can't name a single example I'll tell you why because I don't actually

use that for you feed anymore because I just don't particularly like it you said a

lot of people a lot of people are quite similar.

I only look at my following.

Well, hang on a second. You said you've seen more hateful content, but you can't name a single

example, not even one.

That was Elon Musk talking to the BBC's James Clayton a few months ago.

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