Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is pushing ahead with plans to launch a rival to Twitter because public figures reportedly want a similar platform that is “sanely run”, with the Dalai Lama and Oprah Winfrey on the target list for users.

The standalone app is codenamed Project92 and its public name could be Threads, according to a report by the tech news site the Verge.

The report said Meta’s chief product officer, Chris Cox, told an internal meeting on Thursday that the app was the Facebook and Instagram owner’s “response to Twitter”.

“We’ve been hearing from creators and public figures who are interested in having a platform that is sanely run, that they believe that they can trust and rely upon for distribution,” Cox was quoted as saying, in an apparent reference to the management of Twitter under Elon Musk.

[Lizard Man is delusional. Nothing that is purely virtue signaling progressives is ever profitable or lasts very long. They always eat themselves from the inside out. And that’s cool. Crash and burn, dude. ~ Beege]