A social media platform launched by Meta that allows users to share text posts, photos, and videos with followers and engage through likes, comments, and reposts. The platform competes directly with Twitter/X and integrates with Instagram accounts, enabling cross-platform content sharing. Its policies are significant for users as they govern content moderation, data collection practices, and account linking between Meta's various social media properties.
Higher = more protective of you, the user/customer — a deliberately user-protective lens, not a universal “good vs bad” score. Computed algorithmically from Threads’s cited governance stances; no dimension we haven’t confidently read is ever counted against the score. Free, reproducible, and never purchasable.
Meta explicitly disclaims control over user information after it is transmitted to Third Party Services, shifting governance of that data entirely to external parties whose terms the user may not hav…
The scope of shared data extends beyond post content to potentially include network-identifying metadata like IP addresses, which can reveal a user's location or identity.
A routine interaction — a like or reply from a third-party user — triggers automatic data sharing with an external service, conditioned only on the user's profile being public.
User content and personal information are transmitted to external services outside Threads whenever a Third Party User follows the account, without any additional action required from the user.
Threads frames the data transfer to Third Party Services as a user-initiated direction rather than a Threads-initiated action, which may affect how responsibility for the transfer is allocated.
Threads collects what you provide at sign-up and tracks your activity on the platform, using that information for its own services and for advertising across Meta Products. If any of …
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ConductAtlas tracks 2 Threads documents including terms of service, privacy policy, and other governance documents. Every document is captured daily with cryptographic verification.
Threads has made 0 policy changes in the past 12 months across the documents ConductAtlas tracks.
ConductAtlas has classified 5 provisions across Threads's tracked documents.
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