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[ad_1] Billionaire Elon Musk, known for his online presence on X (formerly Twitter), is asking the general public, anyone with a smartphone, to make waves on the microblogging platform and thereby change the world for the better. Musk wants everyone to know that X is no longer just about text, that it's evolving into an all-in-one solution for users, covering everything from social media to banking.Elon Musk's Call to Citizen JournalistsWith this call to action, Musk is now encouraging the public to become citizen journalists by reporting live from wherever they are using X's live video feature. In case you missed it, Elon Musk recently visited the US-Mexico border to see the situation with illegal immigration in Eagle Pass firsthand. He live-streamed his entire trip so that users could...

[ad_1] Mark Zuckerberg has pitched Meta's Twitter copycat app, Threads, as a "friendly" refuge for public discourse online, framing it in sharp distinction to the more adversarial Twitter which is owned by billionaire Elon Musk."We are definitely focusing on kindness and making this a friendly place," Meta CEO Zuckerberg said on Wednesday, shortly after the service's launch. Maintaining that idealistic vision for Threads - which attracted more than 70 million users in its first two days - is another story. To be sure, Meta Platforms is no newbie at managing the rage-baiting, smut-posting internet hordes. The company said it would hold users of the new Threads app to the same rules it maintains on its photo and video sharing social media service, Instagram.The Facebook and Instagram own...

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Analysis-Meta’s ‘friendly’ Threads collides with unfriendly internet