 Meta's Threads is about a year old and now has 175 million users. That might sound like a lot, but it's a fraction of Instagram's more than 2 billion users. And even Elon Musk's X, which has been declining, has three times as many users as Threads. Threads was created as a Twitter-like service for those fed up with Musk's chaotic rule of the platform. But in trying to capitalize on those fleeing X, Meta says X will not amplify discussions about policy and politics. And that's coming three months before a presidential election.