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The conversation turns to Elon Musk’s legal threats against Meta over Threads, the rival social media app. Lauren Chen dismisses the idea of creating a Threads account, citing market saturation and satisfaction with her existing apps, like Twitter, Truth Social, and Gab. The hosts discuss how Threads appears to copy Twitter’s features, with Musk claiming that Meta used former Twitter employees to replicate the platform illegally. They recognize that social media algorithms and restrictions are heavily influenced by platform politics—highlighting Zuckerberg’s mistreatment of negativity and the pitfalls of enforced positivity.