Biden signs up for X competitor Threads
In July, Meta launched Threads in an attempt to replace Musk's Twitter successor X as a mouthpiece. Now the platform is getting a particularly prominent addition: US President Biden. In his first post, he is optimistic about America's future.
On Monday, US President Joe Biden opened an official account on the online platform Threads, which is a competitor to Elon Musk's short message service X, formerly Twitter. "Folks, this is President Biden," read the first post Biden published there on his 81st birthday. "You're hearing from me today on a new platform, but my message to you hasn't changed," the Democrat wrote.
"I don't see a dark, bleak, divided future for America. I see an America that is about to take off," Biden continued on Threads. In doing so, the president, who is seeking another term in office, distanced himself from his Republican rival, former President Donald Trump, who had made statements about a "decline" of the USA. The US company Meta, which is also behind the online services Facebook and Instagram, had launched threads in July in an attempt to replace Musk's X, then still Twitter, as a mouthpiece for celebrities and governments.
The White House said it had also set up Threads accounts for Biden's wife Jill, Vice President Kamala Harris, her husband Doug Emhoff and the White House itself in English and Spanish. "Threads is an additional way we can communicate with the American people about this administration's historic actions to create 14 million jobs, lower the cost of (...) medicine, protect freedom and much more," a White House official said.
On Friday, the White House had accused Musk of spreading anti-Semitism over a controversial message on X and sharply criticized the multi-billionaire.
In the forecast for the US presidential election 2024, both Donald Trump and Joe Biden are expected to be key figures. Despite joining Threads, Biden's messages on the platform remain consistent with his optimistic views for America's future, differing from Trump's narrative of America's decline. Meanwhile, Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, continues his ownership of X, formerly Twitter, while Meta Platforms, the company behind Threads, Facebook, and Instagram, aims to compete for influence in the political narrative.
Source: www.ntv.de
