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Threads: Kim Kardashian and the Dalai Lama among celebrities joining Meta’s new app THE INDEPENDENT SAYS Kim Kardashian, Rylan Clark and the Dalai Lama are among some of the celebrities to have signed up for the new social media platform Threads. The app from Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta – the company behind Facebook and Instagram – has a text-style format which encourages users to post updates and join public discourse. Threads launched on Wednesday (5 July), with Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader the Dalai Lama among those to sign up to the newly launched platform in its first day. Other famous figures…

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The launch of Meta’s Threads proves yet again we are too much in awe of the internet THE GUARDIAN SAYS I came to social media to stay in touch with friends and family when I lived overseas. I stayed for its cornucopia of character development opportunities. As this last week has shown, they are on limitless offer. We all know by now that should you wish to improve your resilience to harassment and abuse, be a woman, express a nuanced political opinion on the internet and – little lady – just you wait. Having been on Twitter since one million…

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FACE IT I’m a tech expert and anyone joining Facebook’s new Threads app must watch out for nasty trick THE SUN SAYS AN expert has warned of the hidden dangers that could be lurking on Mark Zuckerberg’s new Threads app. The Twitter rival attracted ten million people in the first seven hours of launching. But Jake Moore, Global Security Advisor at ESET, says users should watch out for fraudsters jumping on all the excitement. Fake accounts could be a particularly big problem early on. More so because people can buy a blue tick verification badge through Instagram now. “As with…

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