Folks, the reason #Facebook/ #Instagram/ #Meta/ Zuckerberg hasn’t launched #Threads in the #EU isn’t because the EU is determined to protect your privacy, it’s because the EU is determined to protect The Single Market (peace be upon it) from anticompetitive behaviour. It’s because they’re using Instagram to launch Threads and sharing data between them (and not with EU startups that might want to use that data too). It’s #antitrust, not #privacy. It’s markets, not people.

#DigitalServicesAct

@aral but they launched in UK, and they have both GDPR and Single Market implemented. I wonder how that will work

@kim @aral perhaps it is just a question of marketing and to test the audience...

Launching a product in EU means doing it for several languages and cultures.

@freezr @aral it could be, though several people from Meta has posted that it is because of EU regulations hindering them to launch there.