I’m almost willing to put money on the fact Facebook likely has shady stuff buried in “Threads” code. The sheer invasiveness of them just makes it hard to think otherwise.
Even so, many politicians have already signed up for the service. Axios reported that as of Thursday evening, more than a quarter of Congress’ 535 members across both chambers had created accounts, as well as half a dozen Republican presidential candidates and top White House aides.
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I’m almost willing to put money on the fact Facebook likely has shady stuff buried in “Threads” code. The sheer invasiveness of them just makes it hard to think otherwise.
Who needs lobbying when you can just collect blackmail data on politicians because they willingly install your app?
I doubt many national level politicians run their campaign accounts on their personal phones. In fact, I bet theres only one who does that.
Wild that people just don’t mind being exploited by a social network like that.
This is also evidence that bluesky is going to Google+ themselves out of a market share by slow rolling so much.