Meta launches new Twitter rival, Threads – SFU experts available

Facebook and Instagram owner Meta has now launched its new online discussion platform called Threads. The app is considered direct competition to Twitter, striking at a time when the company has been plagued with controversy and discord under owner Elon Musk. 

Experts from Simon Fraser University are available to discuss the potential impacts of the new platform, the circumstances that led to its launch, and provide additional insight into online communication. 

AVAILABLE SFU EXPERTS

PETER CHOW-WHITE, professor, School of Communication, director, Genomics and Networks Analysis Lab (GeNA Lab)   
petercw@sfu.ca
Expertise: technology and communication, social media and social networks, the Internet

MAITE TABOADA, professor, linguistics, director, Discourse Processing Lab   
mtaboada@sfu.ca
Expertise: online social spaces, toxic language, discourse analysis, gender representation, media coverage, fake news and misinformation, online comments

CONTACT 

MELISSA SHAW, SFU  Communications & Marketing 
236.880.3297 | melissa_shaw@sfu.ca

Simon Fraser University
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