If I had read the story at the start of this month, I would have assumed it was one of those amusing hoax articles which appear in most newspapers on April Fools’ Day.
Meta is set to launch a Twitter rival called Threads this week amid restrictions imposed by Twitter CEO Elon Musk on non-paying users.
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