Meta Threads/issues

Known ethical problems with MT:

• You can't delete your Threads account without deleting your Instagram account.
• Meta has said that yes, they will be mining Threads user data as they do everywhere else. (Why wouldn't they?)
  • 2023-07-08 How Threads' privacy policy compares to Twitter's (and its rivals') (h/t)
• They seem to be systematically doxxing their users.
• They seem to be entirely tolerant of intolerance:
  • Threads apparently considers it okay to call LGBTQ+ people "groomers".
  • Anti-LGBTQ+ accounts which Threads is allowing include:
    • "Libs of TikTok", a group which promotes right-wing views by straw-manning the center-left
    • "Gays Against Groomers" [1]
    • PragerU (Dennis Prager; see RationalWiki)
• There are apparently issues with accessibility, and deep-seated denial of those issues.
  • Apparently there is no way to add descriptions to images. (There are presumably other issues; this is just the one I currently know about.)
• They have actively helped law enforcement to go after people legally seeking abortions by traveling to other states. [2]
• They were flagging disinfo-spreading accounts, but the disinfo-spreading accounts didn't like having it pointed out that they spread disinfo, so the flagging has been discontinued.
  • 2023-07-07 Threads backtracks flagging right-wing users for spreading disinformation
• Threads is, unsurprisingly, very popular with the fash:
  • 2023-07-07 Far-right figures, including Nazi supporters, anti-gay extremists, and white supremacists, are flocking to Threads

Observers [3] have also spotted Gary Vaynerchuk (GaryVee), noted grifter, talking directly with Zuckerberg; There's more information about him here:

• 2022-06-22 Connecting the Manosphere (video, 1:49:44, FD Signifier) (I have not watched this)
• 2022-04-06 How GaryVee manipulates you. (video, 1:19:48, ThoughtSlime): recommended
• 2016-06-22 Gary Vaynerchuk Apologizes For Outrageously Sexist Party Invitation