Rightwing figures sign up for Meta’s Threads app ‘within 24 hours’ of release

White nationalist Richard Spencer and white supremacist Nick Fuentes join app, according to Media Matters

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Meta, has said he wants to make kindness" a focus of his company's new Threads app.

Following the launch of the app last week, Zuckerberg hoped to draw a direct contrast to Twitter which, with more than 250 million users, has seen a surge in hate speech and misinformation since Elon Musk took over as CEO.