Facebook becomes Clubhouse’s biggest challenger as it launches Live Audio Rooms, will be rolling out podcasts next

Facebook has started rolling out its Clubhouse clone, called Live Audio Rooms. Bringing the competition right to Clubhouse, Live Audio Rooms on Facebook will let users join and listen to live conversations. For starters, only public figures and some select Facebook groups on iOS will be able to create Live Audio Rooms, but users from both Android and iOS devices can join these rooms. This service of being able to create Live Audio Rooms is also restricted to the US for now.

Live Audio Room hosts can invite up to 50 speakers to the conversation. The initial set of creators include TOKiMONSTA (Grammy-nominated electronic music artist), American football quarterback Russell Wilson, and scholar-activist Rosa Clemente.