Parler Gains over 5 Million Followers amid Big Tech Censorship, Election Coverage
By: Michael Quintanilla
It’s about time! Soon social media will be as segregated as the other media is. Parler is great news for Christians and conservatives weary about being 2nd class citizens on line. Parler will soon be to social media what Fox News used to be to the lamestream media.
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Parler Gains over 5 Million Followers amid Big Tech Censorship, Election Coverage
Many conservatives and Trump supporters are opting for the conservative-leaning social networking platform called Parler as an alternative to Twitter and Facebook due to the latter two’s increasing censorship and suppression of free speech, CBN News reports.
Launched in 2018, Parler is described as a “free speech” platform that supports equality and religious freedom.
In the past week alone, the platform saw a surge of downloads following the 2020 election as its users feel like Twitter, Facebook and the mainstream media have unfairly called the election in favor of Joe Biden.
On Tuesday, Parler CEO John Matze wrote a letter as he thanked the Parler community for joining the platform in massive numbers.
“Over 5 million individuals were active on Parler yesterday, an 8-fold increase from daily activity just a week ago,” Matze noted. “Our session activity has increased by well over 20 times during the same period.
“Facebook and Twitter's suppression of election information was a catalyst, causing many people to lose their trust," he added. "But the movement away from these platforms was already well underway. Many of you have been activists alongside us, calling out the lack of transparency and unjust, biased policies of our competitors, as part of the Twexit and Erasebook campaigns we launched earlier this year."
Due to increasing big tech censorship throughout the year, many conservatives, pro-lifers and White House affiliates are flocking to Parler.
Prior to the 2020 election, CBN News reported that an advertisement put out by the pro-life organization Susan B. Anthony List had been censored by Facebook, despite the factual content presented within the ad.
One of the lines of the ad reads, "Biden and Harris support abortion up to the moment of birth, all at taxpayer expense. And they promise to nominate only pro-abortion judges."
Last month, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany claimed that Twitter locked her account until she deleted a tweet of a New York Post story about Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings.
Donald Trump Jr. had also been restricted by Twitter over the summer after sharing a video about COVID-19 and medical interventions.
As of Thursday morning, Parler topped the list of free apps on Apple's mobile app store.
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If they had something similar to a geiger counter that could detect dumbasses at that site it would jump off the end of the scale.
calling arizona for biden while people were still standing in line to vote has shown people that for the most part, fox is no better than cnn
Note, that this article is still standing despite the fact, that it is basically advertising for Parler pretending to be an article. NT does not participate in censorship.
that is a stretch... LOL
sure it does... I've been censored many times.
bingo.
that and when a biased moderator decides what is "of value" or not.
and the whole sweeping generalization thing is laughable from the word go.
but in all fairness...
big tech does not admit it censors content either - so why expect different here?
We have a code of conduct. Break it and you get a comment removed.
MAGA, why did God rebuke Trump by making sure that Biden got the exact same total electoral votes as Trump got in 2016. God slapped Trump in the face with that one, didnt he?
It would have been proper to take this down, because it is transparently an 'in yo face' pull - and disrespectful. But, it's your call!
I don't think it's an advertisement, it's News. It's news because Facebook and Twitter's censorship is news and this directly relates to that. I never heard of Parler but I knew some social media platform would benefit from Facebook and Twitter's censorship. I don't use any of these sites and I never have, I was on Newsvine then I came here that's it. Facebook and Twitter think they are so ingrained in American life that they can't be toppled but I'm sure Myspace once thought the same thing. People like freedom and any site that offers a good experience with freedom will do well with people of all political and religious affiliations. Some people might like to exist in an echo chamber but I think most people want to hear different opinions and points of view and yes even an outlandish conspiracy theory or two or maybe somebody's crazy flat earth theory. Tell me who doesn't slow down to look at a Car Wreck.
Who cares, I don't do twitter anyways, no big deal to me. If one wants an echo chamber, go for it.
Same here. [deleted] let them. BIDEN STILL WON!
Right-wing echo chamber doesn't sound any more appealing than left-wing echo chamber.
My thoughts exactly.
Exactly.
It's not just conservatives that might get censored, I posted something years ago that came up on my memories and it was tagged and you know what I did, I deleted it, no fuss, no muss.
Funny thing about people moving around - it opens room for more people. And quality, that is a thing too.
Banned from both, were you?
Prove it.
Nice meta rant, Where is Freedom Outpost mentioned?
Did you even check to see if it is rated by MBFC?
It doesn't appear to be, or even on their radar.
But do continue the victim act, you so it so well.
Maybe it's not them, could it be you?
And you are holding yourself up as a good Christian?
Good grief.