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Twitter owner elon musk tweeting, "competition is fine, cheating is not." meta's communications director responding on threads, "no one on the threads engineering team is a former twitter employee." threads already dubbed by some industry insiders as the twitter killer, threatening to lure away its 330 million active users. meta co-founder mark zuckerberg posting, "wow, 30 million signups as of this morning." and that number continuing to climb. celebrities from nick jonas to kim kardashian entering the chat. >> it is almost an exact clone of twitter. there's even a little retweet button with ...

Everybody against everybody. that's why i use the metaphor the tower of babble. it's not red against blue. it's a fragmentation of everything. that's the way it's felt since about 2014. >> was this the intention of the platforms that you referenced? >> no. it certainly wasn't their intention to destroy society. but it was their very clearly stated intention, worked into their bonus plans that, hey, engineers f you can think of a way to increase engagement, you get a bigger bonus. and so, i think that's especially what threaded comments were, that's what the retweet button was. and i don't know...

What happens on twitter doesn't affect real life but it can distort perceptions of reality by amplifying the extremes and undermining our ability to reason together. it brings to mind a new article in "the atlantic" titled why the past years in life has been stupid. its author jonathan hite places a lot of blame on tribal organization on social media and mob mentality. quote, social media is a product of far left and far right. creating a system that looks less like democracy and more ruled by aggression. it's an environment we created and can still fix. the retweet button and the like and sha...

That happen all the time in media. then you have stories that i think are -- it's not that they didn't get duped, it's that they didn't really do the work. it's just like -- i got duped, you know, when they said, you have your tonsils out, you get to eat all of the ice cream you want. but ice cream hurts my teeth. it doesn't feel good on a hole in your throat. so, what's happening here is they have local journalists, they don't get paid that well. the stories are used for free on social media. they get to keep all of the ad revenue. so people are pressed for time. they don't have time to check...

That happen all the time in media. then you have stories that i think are -- it's not that they didn't get duped, it's that they didn't really do the work. it's just like -- i got duped, you know, when they said, you have your tonsils out, you get to eat all of the ice cream you want. but ice cream hurts my teeth. it doesn't feel good on a hole in your throat. so, what's happening here is they have local journalists, they don't get paid that well. the stories are used for free on social media. they get to keep all of the ad revenue. so people are pressed for time. they don't have time to check...