Conservative Creators Slam Meta's 'Threads' App After Censorship Begins Across The Platform

The 'Threads' app, made by Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta, came online the evening of July 5th and immediately began accruing users of various political extractions, but it didn't take very long for conservatives to notice a troubling trend. The soft censorship has begun.

It was reported Thursday morning by Rogan O'Handley aka DC Draino that followers of his profile were being confronted with a warning on the app that he "has repeatedly posted false information that was reviewed by independent fact-checkers or went against our community guidelines," there was just one problem. O'Handley had only made a single post at that point.

He posted to Twitter, "FoxNews showing how Zuck’s new app 'Threads' is already censoring me & other conservatives on day 1 This is the warning that pops up when you try to follow me there Why does Meta treat 74+ million Americans like 2nd class citizens?"

Executive Producer of The Benny Show and Turning Point USA Ambassador Alex Lorusso aka ALX reported a few hours later that users attempting to follow Donald Trump, Jr. were confronted with a similar warning.

The advocacy group 'Gays for Trump' has been subjected to similar treatment, being summarily banned after posted a non-vulgar meme according to Opoyi, “I posted 1 meme, absolutely nothing on Instagram as I just made the account for Threads, and was immediately banned. Nothing was R-rated or vulgar,” they told the outlet.

Popular conservative account LibsOfTikTok founded by Chaya Raichik reported receiving a milieu of abuse from dozens of users on the platform within hours of creating a profile.

She wrote, "I joined Threads and in under an hour I’ve been told to kill myself, had death wished on me, was called a fascist, a nazi, and a terrorist, and had people plotting how to permanently ban me. The kind and tolerant left strikes again!"

Raichik also posted that a "Trans activist and Clinical Instructor at Harvard Law School encourages users on Threads to mass report me for hate speech for writing the word 'testing'"

Simultaneously, the new application finds itself facing a legal challenge from Elon Musk's X Corp., the parent company of Twitter, which issued a letter to Mark Zuckerberg regarding alleged intellectual property violations in the development of the platform and threatening a lawsuit, as previously reported by the DC Enquirer.

The letter alleged that parent company Meta hired former Twitter associates in possession of the company's intellectual property and equipment and, "Meta deliberately assigned these employees to develop, in a matter of months, Meta's copycat 'Threads' app with the specific intent that they use Twitter's trade secrets and other intellectual property in order to accelerate the development of Met'as competing app, in violation of both state and federal law as well as those employees ongoing obligations to Twitter."

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