Percentage. sarah fisher is our senior media analyst. always good to see you. so details still vague on what threads will actually look like and how it will function. what are you learning? a great question. i m learning that it will look and feel a lot like twitter. the point is to elevate public conversation meaning if something is going viral, this app will make it go more viral. you can like it, repost it, reply to it, et cetera. what is really notable here is that meta has focused so much of its time and attention throughout all its products on video and go toe photo sharing. but this is centered around text. and why is meta getting into this? and the answer is just it is a ripe opportunity. twitter continues to face huge challenges and meta executives think this is an opportunity to strike while the iron is hot.
Students? i don t have the answer to that. everybody has their own opinion on it. from a legal perspective the supreme court was right with respect to their decision. i know a lot of people don t like it. some do. but that s the law. we have equal protection under the constitution for a reason. this is precisely that reason. julie: andrew, great to have you on. well said. appreciate it and happy fourth. thank you, same. rich: mark zuckerberg is taking on elon musk in another arena as instagram gets ready to drop a competitor to twitter called threads expected to launch thursday and already available in the ios app store. it is closely connected with instagram but its own stand alone app. for the information that s available it seems users can like, comment, repost, share posts. they can also control who replies to their posts. julie: here is some news you may want to return to thunder.
Team to actually sweep taranto s van at the scene. cnn was told there is no indication of a direct threat to the obamas and the spokesperson declined to comment whether or not they were even home. taranto is active on youtube. you can see one of those videos on your screen right now. that video posted showing him inside the capitol on january 6. we also know that yesterday morning before the arrest a truth social account with the same user name as taranto s page reposted a post from former president trump that included the purported d.c. address of the obamas. and the repost reads, quote, got them surrounded. now, of course, poppy, there s the question of motive which we don t know something investigators are digging into. gabe, thank you very much, for the reporting. keep us posted.
Media history. he s active on you tube. he has posted videos including one that says he s inside the capitol after storming it, in his words. we know that yesterday morning before the arrest, a truth social account with the same user name as his you tube reposted a post from former president donald trump that included the purported d.c. address of the obamas, and that repost reads, quote, got them sounded. you can see it on your screen there. as you mentioned, he also had this open warrant for his arrest related to the january 6th attack at the capitol, so at this point, he s been arrested and at least charged with being a fugitive from justice. we don t know what additional charges could be coming, kate, at this point. we know that taranto is a defendant in a civil suit filed by the estate of former metropolitan police officer jeffrey smith who died by suicide in the days after the january 6th attack.