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Facebook and Instagram owner Meta has now launched its new online discussion platform called Threads. The app is considered direct competition to Twitter, striking at a time when the company has been plagued with controversy and discord under owner Elon Musk. 

Experts from ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV are available to discuss the potential impacts of the new platform, the circumstances that led to its launch, and provide additional insight into online communication. 

AVAILABLE ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV EXPERTS

PETER CHOW-WHITE, professor, School of Communication, director, Genomics and Networks Analysis Lab (GeNA Lab)   
petercw@sfu.ca
Expertise: technology and communication, social media and social networks, the Internet

MAITE TABOADA, professor, linguistics, director, Discourse Processing Lab   
mtaboada@sfu.ca
Expertise: online social spaces, toxic language, discourse analysis, gender representation, media coverage, fake news and misinformation, online comments

CONTACT 

MELISSA SHAW, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV  Communications & Marketing 
236.880.3297 | melissa_shaw@sfu.ca

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As Canada’s engaged university, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV works with communities, organizations and partners to create, share and embrace knowledge that improves life and generates real change. We deliver a world-class education with lifelong value that shapes change-makers, visionaries and problem-solvers. We connect research and innovation to entrepreneurship and industry to deliver sustainable, relevant solutions to today’s problems. With campuses in British Columbia’s three largest cities—Vancouver, Burnaby and Surrey—¶¡ÏãÔ°AV has eight faculties that deliver 364 undergraduate degree programs and 149 graduate degree programs to more than 37,000 students. The university now boasts more than 180,000 alumni residing in 145+ countries.