I’m almost willing to put money on the fact Facebook likely has shady stuff buried in “Threads” code. The sheer invasiveness of them just makes it hard to think otherwise.
That’s for sure, they don’t have to hide it either just look at the app permissions on the App Store
Even so, many politicians have already signed up for the service. Axios reported that as of Thursday evening, more than a quarter of Congress’ 535 members across both chambers had created accounts, as well as half a dozen Republican presidential candidates and top White House aides.
Who needs lobbying when you can just collect blackmail data on politicians because they willingly install your app?
I doubt many national level politicians run their campaign accounts on their personal phones. In fact, I bet theres only one who does that.