Why Meta's head of Threads thinks it's great if users move to DMs and 'lurk' in the feed

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Connor Hayes, Meta's head of Threads.
Connor Hayes, Meta's head of Threads.

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Instagram is rolling out a new app that's a mix of Snapchat and BeReal

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Instagram is rolling out a new app called Instants.

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Mark Zuckerberg just posted a totally normal and fine photo with Alexandr Wang

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Mark Zuckerberg and Alexandr Wang, head of Meta's AI superintelligence.

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Meta's Threads is letting users be the boss of their own algorithm

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg

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'Rage bait' is the word of the year. My fellow rage-baiters: This is a bad sign.

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"Rage bait" is the Oxford Word of the Year.

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Who Is Threads For? Meta Would Like One Answer to Be ‘Podcasters’

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The Threads app on a smartphone

No, Pro-Trump Hackers Didn’t Hack Zohran Mamdani’s Election Night Party

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Zohran Mamdani, New York City mayoral winner, during an election night event at The Brooklyn Paramount Theater in the Brooklyn borough of New York, US, on Tuesday, Nov.

Meta says online harassment is up and false flags are down following a change in content moderation policies

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Meta sees an uptick in online harassment and graphic content in the first quarter of 2025.

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Mark Zuckerberg teases default Threads feeds as X users flock to rival Bluesky

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The top of an iPhone screen with the Threads page on the App Store.
Threads is testing out new features on the platform.

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A college student who tracks Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg's private jets says his Threads accounts have been suspended

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Jack Sweeney and Elon Musk
Jack Sweeney is a student at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, studying information technology.

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