SYDNEY, July 11 (Reuters) - Social media giant Meta Platforms (META.O), owner of Facebook and Instagram, plans to label government-affiliated accounts on its new Twitter-like platform Threads, an executive told an Australian inquiry on foreign interference on Tuesday.
The disclosure comes less than a week after Meta launched Threads, which is widely seen as similar to the microblogging site Twitter.
Twitter has removed tags from government-affiliated accounts since billionaire Elon Musk took it private in 2022, bringing complaints about degrading users' media literacy.
Asked if Russian state-affiliated broadcaster RT or Chinese government-affiliated publisher Xinhua News Agency would be tagged accordingly on Threads, Machin said, "that's our aspiration".
"To the effect that any state-affiliated media are violating our policies, we would remove them," he told the inquiry.
Persons:
Josh Machin, Meta's, Elon Musk, Machin, James Paterson, Meta, Meta's Machin, Byron Kaye, Lewis Jackson, Jamie Freed
Organizations:
SYDNEY, Facebook, Meta, Twitter, RT, Xinhua, Agency, Reuters, Australian Communications, Media Authority, Thomson
Locations:
Australia, Russia, China, Lincoln