because of regulatory concerns. our north america technology correspondent james clayton reports. last month, these two titans of tech challenged each other to a physical fight. it wasn t clear if they were joking. but meta s new app called threads is deadly serious for twitter. it s been branded the twitter killer. these were my thoughts just after the app went live. so, first thoughts this is just very similar to twitter. very similar. only looks like there s one feed here. in terms of optics, though.identical. ok, what s this? can you re. can you retwee. oh, repost, not retweet. i m going to. this is an article by a friend of mine, so i m going to repost this. add to story. so this is different so you can directly add a story. he chuckles. ..to your instagram.
so, first thoughts this isjust very similar to twitter. very similar. only looks like there s one feed here. in terms of optics, though.identical. ok, what s this? can you re. can you retwee. oh, repost, not retweet. i m going to. this is an article by a friend of mine, so i m going to repost this. add to story. so this is different so you can directly add a story. he chuckles. ..to your instagram. yeah, this is just so clearly directed as a direct competitor on twitter. i mean, it doesn t take a genius to work that out. however, although this is essentially a copy of twitter, experts say it s a pretty good copy and one that could be a problem for elon musk. i think he should be worried. i think he should be very concerned because this is a real challenge to his platform now. and there hasn t been a real
tiktok-size attention spans. will the average person ask, is this real? do you worry about the size of the group who won t ask themselves that? they won t. the size of the group is way large. virtually, i would say, probably nine out of ten people. wow. looking at a political ad will take it at face value. it will get an instant like, a retweet. it will get promoted. it will get pushed out. no one will take the time to go, wait, that picture of fauci hugging donald trump, i don t recall that really happening. where did that happen? no one will do that. what keeps you up at night about this? all of it. all of it. everything that was just said about it. the fact that congress congress can t even figure out how to do facebook. now we re asking them to do ai? they can t even figure out how to regulate facebook and google. aren t you proving his point?
from the u.s. on the tragedy. we ll be right back. we ll be right back. hey, everyone. welcome to msnbc special coverage of the rebellion in russia. i am ayman mohyeldin in new york. more than 24 hours after a russian mercenary chief ordered his forces to end the revolt and retweet from their march toward moscow, many questions still remain about vladimir putin s grip on power, about the future of the war in ukraine, and about the impact of this crisis on stability across that region, as well as elsewhere around the world. here is what we know at this hour. russian mercenaries in the wagner group have withdrawn from the russian cities on the orders of its chief, yevgeny prigozhin, who declared an end to his rebellion yesterday. now, according to russian state media, prigozhin meanwhile, now headed to belarus, whose president, alexander lukashenko,
that is absolutely not my account. that is not your account? on december 5th, 2022 an account under the name marcus allen retweeted a tweet. you haven t let me finish the question. the time is mine. on december 5th, 2022 an account under the name of marcus alan retweeted a tweet that said, quote, nancy pelosi staged january 6th. retweet if you agree, end quote. do you agree with that statement? yes or no? no, ma am. that is not my account at all. i am asking whether you agree with that statement? can you rephrase the statement? the time has expired. i just want him to answer the question. i am just telling you your time is up. do you believe and agree with