Threads, Meta‘s (META) new social networking app and Twitter (TWTR) rival, will not be launched in the EU “at this point,” according to a spokesperson from Ireland’s Data Protection Commission, The Next Web’s Sion Geschwindt reports. The delay of the platform launch in the EU is to avoid regulatory issues and not because Threads has been blocked by the DPC from EU app stores, the report notes.
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