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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andrew Feinberg

Meta backs down on Donald Trump Jr ‘misinformation’ warning

Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

It didn’t take very long for conservatives to pounce on Meta’s new Twitter competitor and accuse it of censoring a prominent conservative, forcing the social media giant to back down.

Last week, the New York Post reported that users of Instagram Threads — the upstart from Facebook’s parent company meant to take advantage of Twitter users’ discontent over the site’s Elon Musk-era problems — were offered a warning when they attempted to follow Donald Trump Jr, the eldest son of twice-impeached, twice-indicted ex-president Donald Trump.

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