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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Saqib Shah

Meta's Threads flooded with posts from X/Twitter defectors after Elon Musk's embrace of Trump

Meta’s mercurial X/Twitter rival, Threads, is currently saturated with posts from new and returning users who have fled X in the wake of Elon Musk’s far-right pivot.

The exiles are introducing themselves to their fellow Threads users (all 200 million of them), seeking connections, and berating X’s divisive commander-in-chief as they find their bearings on the fledgling social media app.

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