says— this work and mark zuckerberg says we — this work and mark zuckerberg says we have a ton of workound. early days indeed. mike isaac from the time, a technology reporter and kyle from . thank you for your company. stay with us on bbc news. hello there. we closed out our working week on a hot and increasingly humid story, in fact many areas across the country seeing temperatures mid—to—high 20s, peaking in the southeast with 30 degrees as an afternoon high. that means temperatures not falling very far at all, so the start of saturday morning is going to be quite an uncomfortable one, quite a muggy one. temperatures in london, well, sitting at around 20 degrees already — that's 68 fahrenheit. and with that humidity, unfortunately with this weather front pushing in from the southwest, could trigger off some sharp thundery downpours as we go through the start of the weekend. so dry, settled sunny start for many, but here is that front and you can see the brighter colours denoting the intensity of that thundery rain. large hail not out of the question as well. it sweeps quite quickly n

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mark zuckerberg writing on the app at least 10 million users have signed up.tter the app features short text post that users can like, repost and shares are bumped up ahead of the open over 1.5%. for much more on the launch of threads and if it is a twitter killer, let's bring in our technology reporter from the wall street journal. so first question, are you on threads and what do you expect for this platform? this offshoot of instagram? >> i got on last night and it was simple. one of the strengths and benefits is that it quickly imports your username from instagram and you are on the go immediately. it was like the first day of school last night as people were discovering how it worked. the question going forward is will it pull away users from twitter? will it siphon away that important community aspect that twitter has developed over the year where a culture conversation occurs whenever something big or not so big is going on. will there be a character of the day on threads that people are compelled to look at on a daily and hourly basis. >> using the wor

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the clash of the tech titans as billionaires elon musk and mark zuckerberg battle it out. >>> and the half a billion dollar powerball jackpot. millions are watching closely tonight. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt >>> good evening, and welcome. there was no celebration for too many americans this fourth of july holiday whose lives were shattered or ended in mass shootings yesterday alone saw five shootings in which four or more people were struck according to the gun violence archive, which tracks the awful tally. the july 4th toll includes nine people wounded at a celebration in the nation's capital the extended holiday weekend has already been an especially violent one with 20 people killed in mass shootings. the violence recorded across 18 states among them, the attack that killed five in monday's wild attack in philadelphia carried out by an individual police say was heavily armed and wearing a ballistic vest it's where we start tonight with george solis. >> reporter: tonight, new details emerging as accused shooter, 40-year-old kimbrady carriker, appeare

what has mark zuckerberg supposedly done?s, all they have to do is turn over internal documents the committee is requesting but if they don't do that, sources tell me thursday would be the day they would vote hold mark zuckerberg in con contempt. an escalation in the building pressure cooker around the not just capitol hill but attorneys general who made moves to hold social media accountable for unfair politically biased censorship on their platforms. >> if mark zuckerberg is allowed to consolidate power and make it easier for the federal government to violate americans free speech rights on his platforms, that's what it's about, we can't let cover consolidate power and make it easier for the federal government to violate our first amendment rights. >> meta- says they've been cooperating and will continue telling foxbusiness this, who shared 50000 pages of documents in response to the committee's request and made nearly a dozen current and former ploys available to discuss external and internal issues and look forward to con

is this about mark zuckerberg's year of efficiency? i about mark zuckerberg's year of efficien ? efficiency? i think the year of efficiency is _ efficiency? i think the year of efficiency is never _ efficiency? i think the year of efficiency is never any - efficiency? i think the year of efficiency is never any part i efficiency? i think the year of efficiency is never any part of it, this is definitely a leaner, meaner company than we had seen in the past. one great example is the launch of threads. the brand—new app, the text—based communication app that meta just launched a couple of weeks ago, it was launched with basically a skeleton crew of engineers and very quickly. this is not something that meta would have been able to do in the past. this new focus and his new drive to really be aggressive but with a smaller team, i think it is really paying the company. think it is really paying the company-— think it is really paying the coman. �* ., , ., �* think it is really paying the coman.�* ., , , company. but threads won't be takin: company. but threads won't be taking adverti

. >> the new legal battle over mark zuckerberg's new version of twitter. elon musk is fighting back. >> abc news exclusive a boy is saved from drowning in a pool. we hear from the heroes, ages eight and 12 who pulled off the rescue. >> and later, is this license plate to mean the cross-border debate pitting nevada versus california. >> from abc news in new york, this is america this morning. good friday morning, everyone. >> i'm andrea from ge in for rhiannon. >> and i'm lionel moise, in for andrew. we begin this morning with the extreme heat gripping most of the nation. the summer heat is setting records with temperatures expected to approach 100 as far north as vermont today. and severe storms also hitting overnight. this funnel cloud was seen near denver and a landspout was seen farther east. but the big story remains the brutally high temperatures. it's a heat that's not just uncomfortable here, buddy. >> you can hear me, man. >> it's scary all authorities in arizona releasing this video of a terrifying moment for two hikers near tucson. border patrol

he is considerably bigger than mark zuckerberg. mark zuckerberg is a small guy.hey say he has been studying brazilian jujitsu. and in the case of elon musk, all he said as i will be a big body and lay on him and maneuvered the move called the walrus where i lay on him and do nothing. if i have to bet on one or the other i would bet on the jujitsu artist. but elon musk is a big dude. if he falls on mark zuckerberg, who knows? i don't know. i will go with mark zuckerberg, the underdog. >> we have the tail of the tape on the screen. i will be real. elon musk is 6'1" and doesn't look like 187. he looks about 210 paragraph that would be an advantage. i will go with mark zuckerberg as well. hispanic that is what i am doing. this is not boxing. if it was boxing i would pick elon musk. a martial artist, you have to change. >> always love it, even and because we disagree. thank you stephen a. smith. >> that's right. my pleasure. >>> the squad in ben and jerry celebrating the 4th of july by attacking america. for some reason what used to be radical is now totally acceptabl

if you were to pull large meta owners, what was mark zuckerberg doing, i think it's good, but i just don't think it has a material effect on the market generally about these stocks >> it doesn't appear to be affecting the stock. >>> the fed hiking rates, largely expected i think what we have to dissect is the commentary of jay powell after the decision jim, what did you make of what jay powell had to say? he says he doesn't see a cut until a year from now. specific about a year from now i think a lot of people including morgan stanley expecting a cut before then. >> i think if a cut comes, it will be because inflation comes down faster than expected as opposed to a recessionary signal that mandates them to cut. i think the soft landing is in the cards as long as inflation continues to come down rapidly we'll have cpi i understand that. i'm of the opinion all of us live in. we have to fuel our cars and buy food i think it's harder for the fed to raise rates if the fed is done being data dependent, the market can continue to rally. >> i think quoit a few people share that opinion morga

but i am also guessing that mark zuckerberg and the team at meta are pretty confident that what they'reay. we'll see what happens. but for now, i don't think zuckerberg looks too worried. >> and oliver, i've seen you on threads. i'm following you. i noticed you're following me. i appreciate that very much. but so far, this app, i mean, it's almost like you're on twitter, you know. i shouldn't admit this, but i've kind of gone back and forth between the two apps, and sometimes oh, yeah, i'm on threads, not twitter right now. it's that close. it's kind of amazing. >> yeah, it's twitter right now without the chaos that elon musk has really brought to the platform. and i think that's what users are really craving and longing for, and they're finding it, at least for now, over on threads. >> oliver darcy, great to talk to you again. thank you so much. really appreciate it. >> thank you, jim. >>> all right. and just one day after announcing her plans to retire, megan rapinoe and the women's national team were back in action. how they did, and what they're saying about the soccer trailblazer's

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cheryl: time for the hot topic buzz a digital battle between mark zuckerberg and elon musk as metal launches 10 million sign-ups in seven hours. of course he posted this on threads. i made the point earlier, what was interesting you can use the same account on facebook, and instagram to connect over to threads. yet billions of people on facebook, a ready-made market, another thing the social media users are going to stay on one platform, everybody wants to have different platforms to get their messages out. you can see this continue, what is the appetite for the developers to say we're going to launch this there's a lot of issues in maintaining the platforms everything from free-speech in the box take over the messaging, what is the security on it in child trafficking. all these different things is not something you could just run into it's a lot of responsibility. obviously that deborah downloads in seven hours there's a lot of appetite for this and what do you think from a business perspective. the metaverse hasn't really been so hot for mark zuckerberg that might've been a misstep and i t

didn't mark zuckerberg say he sees it as a kinder thing? is it true here?> well, that's their goal. we talked about this. it's going to be very hard for meta to continue to be in this place where they say this will be a kind and friendly environment because, as you know, these types of public discourse apps invite a lot of conversation around polarizing topics, policy, breaking news. t they may want to say this is a kind and friendly place, but it will be determined whether or not they can moderate it to be as such without infringing on free speech. if i had to guess, this is going to be the toughest thing for meta to circle. right now this is a friendly and exciting experience. most of the conversations on threads are just about threads. closer to an election, i am curious to see if the tone of those conversations changes. >> yeah, so there will be ads, including as we get closer to the election, political ads. that will be something they have to deal with as they do on facebook. >> so what their plan is for now is to focus on scaling the user base. they p

this is like old school mark zuckerberg stuff. >> absolutely. his focus is going to need to shift to this area but maybe not all for good reasons. let me put this out there. what threads is doing is building an algorithmic feed of social media content. it sounds a little bit like twitter but a lot like instagram. when you view this in context with meta's big war against tiktok, which is the battle of its life, this could, a. distract executives away from putting instagram and facebook front and center there but also take some energy away from instagram in terms of user focus. and once that happens, all the sudden facebook's plan to take on tiktok looks very different. i think this is a very underappreciated risk in the spite. >> i mean, there is plenty of investment that meta can afford to shift around. doesn't have to go away from tiktok competition? couldn't it come from the meta verse? couldn't you take like 30% of those resources and say, okay. maybe that is a few years out. let us spend that money on making threads robust and monetizing it

why elon musk is threatening to sue mark zuckerberg after meta launches its new app. captioning funded by cbs >>> well, >>> well, good morning and good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. we begin with the record-breaking heat across most of the country. millions of americans remain under an excessive heat warning today with triple-digit temperatures expected in parts of the southwest. yesterday more than 67 million americans in 31 states saw temperatures top 90 degrees, and experts say it's not over. jarred hill is tracking the latest. oh, from inside, jarred? how convenient. it is a weather story, but i don't blame you for being inside. good morning. >> heck, yeah. anne-marie, it's hot outside. not just technically hot here in the states. we're talking about heat that is record-breaking really for the earth as a whole. >> reporter: in upstate new york, the pool was the hottest place for folks trying to find a little relief from the summer sizzle. >> great to be able to go somewhere in the community and cool off. like the pool is awesome. >> reporter: firefighters

mark zuckerberg bragging the app is doing well. posted on threads. 10 million sign-ups in seven hours with the emoji next to it. what is interesting about threads, you can take your profiles connected under one username and password and extend it to threads. that is one reason he got so many so quickly, one stop shopping to add threads to your social media use, if you will. good step out of the gate for threads. >> ashley: we'll see how big of a threat -- >> carley: there will be a cage match, too. >> ashley: there was that and now this. the gop has issues with biden power plans. >> cheryl: biden administration made it clear it is about climate change and clamp down on fossil fuel production in this country. you have lawmakers saying, wait a minutes, shutting down power plantses, what about usage in power. this letter is from joe braso and shelly moore. epa lacks expertise to project the impact of rule making on reliability without engaged participation from farc, and charged with obligation to generate and deliver, fine point that

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>> you mentioned, is this a golden opportunity for mark zuckerberg? the worst nature of x's branding coming out today could be a symptom of playing catch up with the release of threads, which seemed to be capitalizing on a bad moment for twitter when they introduced the rate limit. it seems threads upped their release date because of that. maybe there is in the background the competitive nature between the two companies where they are rushing things just to compete with one another. what it did for threads is it saw a huge adoption very quickly, the fastest service ever to reach 100 million users, but activity has not seemed to match that appetite. i think there was a huge influx of people securing their name on a major platform, which is an important thing to do, but not matched with the level of activity and engagement. so that is the challenge that zuckerberg has to overcome here. if twitter keeps giving opportunities where it gets distracted with the purpose of the platform that most people use it for, then zuckerberg has another moment here to ca

before the launched that is what mark zuckerberg said.t's meant to be kept friendly. >> do we know how they are planning to monetize the plot form? >> that is one of the key elements. twitter has lost some of its advertisers in particular and hopefully threads will take on the back of that. that is the one part that they are aiming to look into because if they are able to make more money from it then they definitely will stick around and invest more. you can have a threads conversation with somebody else probably not on twitter but for example on twitter and you would have a conversation while the other person stays on their app. >> all right, happy threading. >> a new word. >> i will download it afterwards. coming up on street signs signs fall amid hybrid working. >>> cnbc. that live ambitiously. >>> friday, 8:30 eastern. >>> welcome back to street signs. i'm julianna tatelbaum and these are your headlights. wall street weakness goes into european trade. u.s. futures point two a negative open after the fed has more interest rate hikes to

this is mark zuckerberg against elon musk. what does it look and feel like?maximum character limit of 500, you can share posts with your friends, in a very similar way to twitter, all accounts will start off private and then you can make them public, and in theory this isn't available now but the hope is from meta that this will be interoperable with other platforms like blue sky and mastodon.l i think the crucial thing here and this is why i am excited about this is this is not a random player, this is meta doing this, they have a lot of experience of copying other apps very successfully, reels which is a copy of tiktok, stories which is a copy of snapchat and this app will have access to hundreds and millions of instagram accounts. it is not starting from zero. so this has a very, very good chance of succeeding, some people are calling it a twitter killer. it will also hoover up lots of data so it is worth just saying that in a way that some other apps don't. this is a really, really significant moment in terms of twitter. a very perilous moment i would say

we don't, we move ahead. >> the house judiciary committee will move forward with plans to site mark zuckerbergtempt of congress. mark said we began sharing documents before the committee's february subpoena and if continued to do so, to date we have delivered over 53,000 pages of documents internal and external and have made nearly a dozen current and former employees available to discuss external and internal matters including some scheduled this week. if zuckerberg were held in contempt, he could face up to a year in jail, up to a $100,000 fine. that's only in the doj or the u.s. attorney were to prosecute, which is unlikely. neil? >> neil: hillary, feel better. on capitol hill reporting on that. the homeland security secretary of the united states on capitol hill today. didn't go well. >> i'm tired of the open boarder. >> point of order. >> this is my opinion -- >> it's based on the standard that chairman set out in previous hearings. calling a witness dishonest -- >> is it your intempt to not respond to any questions to republicans, you came with that intent? >> that is incorrect, congress

is doing, all eyes go to whatever it is that mark zuckerberg is doing. i don't know if musk wants to bring even more attention to threads than it's already getting. >> okay. it's getting a lot of attention, over 30 million followers in about a day and growing quickly. how did it get so big, so fast? >> it has a couple things going for it, the backing of a gigantic company, meta. but also the link to instagram. unlike the other sites where you went on one at a time and tried to bring your friends over, if you're on instagram, you can click and instantly bring your friends over and follow them and have them follow you. it's an instant -- i mean there are 2.5 billion people on instagram, and it could potentially all head over to threads. so you have this real, real strong backbone already, and you see why it already has a thriving community. and one day they say it has as many as 40 million, maybe 50 million users in 24 hours. it took facebook three years to get that many users. >> i signed up. it was very easy. it just connected it through my instagram bas

mark zuckerberg has made his political ambitions and opinions known.t leaning, very supportive of democrats and he will use as he has done with facebook and instagram his social media presence to further those ambitions, maria. so we shouldn't be surprised. i mean, i think what's sort of tragic here is it looks to me like we're going to have a bifurcation once again of american political opinion with people on the left going to threads and people on the right going to twitter. we don't need more of that. we need less of that. we need debate which you do have on twitter. so i'm sort of disheartened by this and you know, but again, not shocked at all. maria: yeah. i mean, you would think that he would have learned a lesson, mark zuckerberg, he is the one who told us that the government told them that to do during covid, told them what to do during the hunter biden laptop mess. >> yeah. i mean, there's no question about it. they have been very instrumental in the censorship that by the way angers most americans. should alarm every american. this is not ri

celebrities, politicians and journalists have joined mark zuckerberg's new app which is now the fastest growing online platform to hit the milestone. threads aims to rival twitter which had about 240 million daily active users injuly last year, and of course that was before it was taken over by billionaire elon musk. the platform launched by instagram owner meta has beat that record set by chatgpt, signing up more than 100 million users in under five days. that was just last wednesday that threads went live on apple and android app stores and 100 countries. mark zuckerberg said he couldn't believe the milestone had been reached so fast but if it feels like lots of people are already on it, well that is partly because it is connect to instagram. meta isn't creating an app from scratch, it is benefiting from its 2 billion instagram followers and that's giving it a massive shot in the arm. analysts are calling this the first serious threat to the elon musk owned twitter. according to similar web, twitter�*s web traffic was down 11% from the year prior, that's in the days immediately after

coming up, mark zuckerberg takes to twitter for the first time in 11 years.ng you the why next, this is bloomberg technology. ♪ caroline: going viral, mark zuckerberg posted his first week in more than a decade. the founder of meta appears to be making an obvious jet at elon musk, and must responded with his own retort about instagram. this comes to ask after elon musk and mark zuckerberg had a cage fight, yet to become a real one. for now, a figurative one. ed: it's like the most accurate use of that meme ever seen. it's episode 19b of the 1967 animate spider-man and the title of that episode is double identity and zuckerberg's point is they are the same thing. threads and twitter are the same for all intents and purposes. caroline: are you enjoying it? ed: i am and we will get his of the momentum behind this. what's the evidence for meeting pent-up demand? >> 30 million people being on threads in 24 hours is pretty crazy. we've seen other twitter alternate is pop up but i don't think they had that sort of growth within 24 hours was pretty impressive. caroli

in a surprise early release, mark zuckerberg's meta is officially out with its answer to elon musk's twitter. it's called threads, kind of like the clothing. just two days ago zuckerberg announced that the app would be releasing tomorrow morning. but then he surprised everyone by releasing it early at 4:00 this afternoon. and just that announcement of the app gave meta a $30 billion stock value bump this morning. that's actually more than the value of twitter. so we want to bring in our business and tech reporter scott budman, who has been closely following all this. and scott, i know you're one of the first people in the newsroom to sign up. i have mine now two. i know you've had three hours to play around with it. so you're ahead of me. it looks on the face of it like twitter, right? and were you surprised that he kind of bumped it up and got it out this fast? >> yeah. it was kind of a surprise, jessica, although if you think about it, this has been a really, really bad week for twitter because of the rate limits that elon musk bafflingly put on to an advertising-supported site. som

hey get this, threads mark zuckerberg's long awaited response to elon musk's twitter, long awaited byning more than ten million viewers in the first seven hours. the move fueling the feud between the tech giants after zuckerberg chid him to a cave fight last week over the new competition. here to react kurt the cyber guy. kurt why would anyone run to threads when we don't know what mark zuckerberg is up to still from past elections in disand misinformation. >> hey, good morning brian good question and i'll give you the good, as you know i'll also give you the bad. so threads launched today, so easy to get on. and the reason you'd want to get on is that it is so incredibly fluid and easy and natural, especially if you have instagram already. you'll use that handle. so if you go on instagram and search threads, a little red thing will pop up, your invitation is there, boom, your profile gets moved over if you want it that way and you're off to the races. i just added steve doocy, no spaces, and i'm looking for you brian. i'm assuming you have an instagram account and i'm sure i follow y

>> coming up for us, will mark zuckerberg's new launch mark the beginning of the end for twitter.e on meta's new threads app out today. turn into scientists. tourist taking photos that are analyzed by ai. so researchers can help life underwater flourish. ♪ ah, these bills are crazy. she has no idea she's sitting on a goldmine. well she doesn't know that if she owns a life insurance policy of $100,000 or more she can sell all or part of it to coventry for cash. even a term policy. even a term policy? even a term policy! find out if you're sitting on a goldmine. call coventry direct today at the number on your screen, or visit coventrydirect.com. hey, dad. i got an a on my book report. that's cool. and i went for a walk in the woods and i didn't get a single flea or tick on me. you are just the best. -right? i'm great. -you are great. oh, brother. this flea and tick season, trust america's #1 pet pharmacy. chewy. >>> in a clear and direct challenge to elon musk's twitter, mark zuckerberg has a new launch and it is called thread and it has some big numbers and what are you learning a

mark zuckerberg launches his version of twitter overnight. the response so far. >> and later, give him a hand. this man is celebrating quite the feat. from york, this is america. >> this morning. good thursday morning, everyone. >> i'm rhiannon ally. >> and i'm lionel moise, in for andrew. we begin this morning with one of america's biggest cities taking new action on gun control nationwide. >> 18 people were killed in mass shootings over the holiday weekend. five of them in philadelphia. and that is where city officials are now taking legal action to address a massive spike in the number of so-called ghost guns on the street. >> police say ghost guns pose an especial, dangerous and growing threat. abc's andrea fujii explains why. >> this morning, days after police say this gunman opened fire randomly in a philadelphia neighborhood, killing five people and wounding several others, including a toddler. the city is taking aim at so-called ghost guns, the kind of weapon allegedly used in monday's attack. >> one was an ar 15, the other was a nine

relationship the latest battle between billionaires mark zuckerberg and elon musk is on.m and parent company meta launched a new app called threads. a text-based offering taking aim at musk's offering and 360 million users. earlier today meta founder mark zuckerberg's apparent initial post saying, let's do this, visible to a select few given early access to threads. >> so kind of looks like this right now. looks like a mash-up of, like, instagram, facebook, and twitter. >> reporter: content creator, drex lee, who makes money as an influencer on instagram selected today for a sneak peek, and he's already posted ten times. what grade do you give it so far? >> i mean, everything has been running pretty smoothly, so i would give it, like, an "a." >> reporter: the growing rivalry between zuckerberg and musk might even get physical. the two trading barbs about a potential cage match, but as their battle for micro bloggers that is the prize fight of the moment. >> this fight is about so many things. this is about users. this is about money. it's about ideology. it is about power

. >>> also, it is mark zuckerberg's biggest swing yet at elon musk.ll talk about the big launch and what it means next. - this was our second purchase through carvana. it was super easy and really fast. this time, we traded in a car and couldn't believe how easy it was, and we found the car our fafamily really needed and in red. next thing i know, our new car was here and our trade-in was gone. bye! ta-da. (sheena chuckles) i literally tell people all the time how fast and easy carvana is. - [announcer] buy your car with carvana today. [music playing] subject 1: cancer is a long journey. it's overwhelming, but you just have to put your mind to it and fight. subject 2: it doesn't feel good because you can't play outside with other children. subject 3: as a parent, it is your job to protect your family. but here is something that i cannot do. i cannot fix this. i don't know if my daughter is going to be able to walk. i don't know if she's going to make it till tomorrow. [music playing] interviewer: you can join the battle to save lives by supporting st.

why is mark zuckerberg going into twitter's territory now? nkly, i think it is because mark sends his weakness -- mark senses weakness, and there is weakness. last weekend was a long holiday weekend, elon musk took twitter off-line for a lot of people and basically the app stopped working. we were talking to the head of instagram yesterday, and they started developing the app inside of meta last winter when they saw twitter was really into malt. -- in tumult. facebook and mark zuckerberg are intensely imperative and they want to -- intensely competitive. amna: in terms of a response from elon musk there is reporting that twitter is threatening to sue meta over threads, sending zuckerberg a cease and desist letter. mosque has been tweeting about this. this afternoon he tweeted competition is fine, cheating is not. what does tell you about how elon musk views this competitor? mike: he is not happy, for sure. he has basically been pushing back trying to get folks who are quote unquote scraping twitter's data or using it to build other apps and se

the move is the latest in a rivalry between meta boss mark zuckerberg and twitter owner elon musk. our technology reporter. what do we know about this app? are there any details on how it will work? it there any details on how it will work? , ., , ., ., ,, work? it is a bit of a guessing rame. work? it is a bit of a guessing game- it _ work? it is a bit of a guessing game. it appeared _ work? it is a bit of a guessing game. it appeared overnightl work? it is a bit of a guessing | game. it appeared overnight in work? it is a bit of a guessing - game. it appeared overnight in the app game. it appeared overnight in the app stores. what we have to go on is when it was leaked earlier under a pseudonym. what people can see from the screenshots etc on the app store it will be linked to your instagram account, it will be free and it looks like, as indeed since the dawn of twitter, a lot of these kind of text—based social network apps have looked, you will be able to do things like follow people, post. there could be integration with other apps that do a similar sort of thing, like mastodon

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that is what mark zuckerberg will be playing into.is huge amounts of dynamic competition out there. they are expanding into a different market, not improving their entrenchment in an existing market. there will be questions about whether they are abusing their strength in instagram and all that user data of 2 billion people to give themselves an unfair leg up. for people like macedon and blue sky, is this crimping the ability of other upstarts to get a foothold in the marketplace? dani: interesting point about antitrust. while we are talking about tech, alibaba and tencent all rallying today. it seems may the worst is over, we have turned a corner in the china tech crackdown. >> probably more data about what the chinese government is planning. the equity market tends to have a short memory about what happened. the chinese government basically changed policy on a dime. that they could do so again at the drop of a hat. as an investor, if you are from the u.s. or europe, you are probably more wary about how far this rally will go and whe

place for users so it doesn't break the server again. >> reporter: instagram is a part of meta, mark zuckerberg recently agreeing to a cage match , and a new jab from zuckerberg, as threads was released, he went on twitter and posted a picture of two spiderman's pointing at each other, admitting to the platforms similarity. >> the twitter ceo said we are often imitated but the twitter communicated community can never be duplicated. >> twitter has been fraught with drama, it is not making money, it had to limit the number of posts people could look at. when you are a platform that makes money off of advertising, that is very bad. these are just tough times for twitter, some people would argue it is a death spiral. >> threads is unavailable in the european union because of data privacy concerns. >>> not every record that is broken is a good thing. >> it is hot, and it's very draining. >> the concerns scientists have is the earth's record records its hottest week ever. >>> for more than three decades, ♪ ♪ californinia sky ♪ ♪ tododos alcanzazamos las s estrellas s ♪ ♪ sunny statate of mindnd ♪ ♪ f

the background to it, there is a weird spat between mark zuckerberg and elon musk which, you know, ieople are jokingly, maybe not jokingly, talking about them getting in some sort of fistfight. so this is one of those situations where you have overlapping personal, technology, and business people who are kind of puffing up their chests at each other. >> and billions, billions, billions. billionaires. >> billions at stake. >> you have a fascinating story coming up this sunday. we will play a little bit in a moment. but it's about social media and kids and parents and major worries and mental health. how does threads tie into how meta is addressing this mental health aspect of it all? >> well, the movement to sue social media companies over harms, whether they be eating disorders or bullying or sexual exploitation really accelerated after francis haugen a few years ago released the facebook paper. she was an ex-facebook employee. she said the company had been research and understood there were social harms that could come from kind of overuse of social media. fast forward to now. you h

. >>> mark zuckerberg giving elon musk 70 million reasons to face off with him, that is next.'i'm sharon, and i lost 52 pounds on golo. i realized i n needed to make a change when i looked in the mirror and did not recognize myself. i saw the golo commercial and i liked how they weren't actors. they just seemed like people that were just happy with themselves and had true results. that were just happy since being on golo, i truly feel like i'm back to the best me i can be. try golo. it worked for me, and i'm real. (soft music) >>> in the tech lead, social media tightens elon musk and mark zuckerberg could mean square of in a courtroom ahead of the tease billion-dollar cage brawl after musk threatened to sue mentor over its new twitter rival app called thread. that has already surpassed 70 million sign-ups it was a couple of days ago. audie cornish is digging into this rivalry. what exactly is twitter accusing method of doing? >> is accusing them of hiring ex-twitter employees and that the employees had trade secrets that allow them to build basically a copycat app, known as gr

speak of the digital cage match, that is what this play is for mark zuckerberg purely is playig to his able to undercut elon musk. ♪ ♪ >> jericka: russian re police allegedly raid yevgeny yevgeny prigozhin's mansion after armed revolt. the question tonight is, where is the wagner group's leader? alzheimer's breakthrough? the fda improves a drug that jet could slow down the progression of the disease. >> it is a miracle, in my view, that i can stay active and healthy and with it. ♪ ♪ >> they are a public health threat, pfas, chemicals, known carcinogens. and now for the first time there is a way to blast them out of existence. >> this is only the tip of the iceberg. ♪ ♪ ♪ life in the fast lane ♪ ♪ ♪ >> jericka: and a swan song for the eagles, the iconic band announces its farewell tour. ♪ ♪ good evening, and thank you for joining us on this thursday night. i'm jericka duncan in jericka duncan infra norah. we begin tonight with another day of brutal eat in more than half a country. more than 60 million americans and 31 states saw temperatures top 90 degrees today. the sizzling heat was f

mark zuckerberg's metta taking on twitter with a new social media platform, threads.illions have already signed up. ♪ i'm brent goff. to our viewers in the united states and all of you around the world, welcome. the whereabouts of yevgeny prigozhin are unclear tonight. the leader of belarus says that prigozhin is in russia. probably with thousands of fighters and that he is not in belarus as we had believed to be the case. the kremlin says that it is not keeping tabs on the whereabouts of the wagner boss. >> the mystery continues over the whereabouts of yevgeny prigozhin. the boss of wagner has not been seen publicly since leading an armed road against moscow. he had reportedly traveled to belarus as part of a deal with vladimir putin following the mutiny that he led last month. now the leader of belarus, alexander lukashenko, says that prigozhin is in russia and not in his country as he had previously claimed. >> i know for sure that prigozhin is a free man. right now he is a free man. i spoke to him on the phone not long ago. i think we spoke yesterday after lunch a

cometh the moment, cometh mark zuckerberg trying to put something in that is another big product launch over the last one. they're all in on the metaverse has been criticized somewhat widely but this one is off to a favorable reaction. zuckerberg said on threads that it had more than 5 million sign-ups already. spoiler alert, and fun fact, that is the first threads-based headline on your terminal. remember where you are so you'll remember where you were for that one. we will see if this will take twitter down. we are a long way off of that. it is a bit of a jungle in the app. it is not extremely clear what you are seeing and why you are seeing it. there has been user complains about that already so far. in terms of sign-up, this is the first real twitter arrival that comes with a built-in sign-up process. it's tremendously easy for the millions and millions of instagram folks to port over their data, and get some followers quickly. that start up a game changer compared to earlier rivals that have come and gone. lizzy: cometh the man, or maybe spider-man if you saw mark zuckerberg's firs

you wonder what the thinking is on the part of mark zuckerberg. he likes to copy, doesn't he?t be the first time that we've seen meta deliberately clone ideas of rivals and actually make them work. we have seen meta reels could be seen as a very similar platform or a very similar copy of tiktok, and it is very interesting, the timing here. and the description. it all very much points to it being a clone of the twitter platform. as you said, it has links to instagram, so it can pick up the followers there, so it is not going to be starting from scratch, because this isn't the first time we have seen a company or a person may think about president trump for example, trying to imitate the twitter platform. but as i said, this isn't starting from scratch. there is a lot of funding which could be behind it as well. but also the timing is so interesting. as you've touched on there, there is a lot of rivalry between twitter and meta at the moment or more precisely between elon musk and mark zuckerberg and then also we've got this idea that there are a lot of twitter users who are a l