Mark Zuckerberg and the Battle for Threads

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Mark Zuckerberg has had a good year really because some of his social media rivals have been even more controversial than Facebook. Meta probably sees an opportunity here because Twitter is being run in a fairly kind of erratic way. And despite Twitter's problems, no one yet has managed to poach a large number of its users.

If there is one thing Facebook’s parent company does well, it is aping other social-media features and platforms—and it is a propitious time to steal Twitter’s thunder. Deeply indebted Arab countries desperately need loans from the IMF, but have good reasons to balk at the fund’s terms (10:00). And New Yorkers love their invasive parakeets; the birds’ enormous nests, less so (18:41).

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