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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“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."
https://thenewstalkers.com/vic-eldred/group_discuss/11100/parler-gains-over-5-million-followers-amid-big-tech-censorship-election-coverage
With many conservatives and Donald Trump backers in a lather over heightened scrutiny of Facebook and Twitter posts during election season, social media startup Parler is emerging as a fast-growing alternative.
The Henderson, NV-based company, founded in 2018 by computer programmers John Matze and Jared Thomson, says its membership swelled to about 8 million from 4.5 million in just the past week. Parler’s app is the No. 1 download in the Apple iOS and Android stores, according to measurement firm Sensor Tower. Other social media players like Gab or MeWe have similarly benefited from conservative angst about Silicon Valley’s so-called “censorship,” but Parler’s gains have been the most significant of any alternative outlet to date....
read more: https://www.google.com/amp/s/deadline.com/2020/11/parler-growth-donald-trump-facebook-twitter-conservatives-election-2020-1234612982/amp/
Conservative group launches website to battle big tech companies over online censorship
‘Every platform in Silicon Valley today is censoring conservatives,’ Brent Bozell said
The Media Research Center has launched CensorTrack, a website dedicated to #FreeSpeechAmerica, a campaign designed to fight online censorship of conservatives.
“Our position is that if they can do it to the president of the United States, they can do it to anyone, and in fact that is exactly what is happening... every platform in Silicon Valley today is censoring conservatives,” MRC founder and president Brent Bozell told attendees of a virtual launch event on Sept. 17....
read more: https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2066330672669/conservative-group-launches-website-to-battle-big-tech-companies-over-online-censorship
Frankly, Donald Trump was begging to be censored! Anyone who thinks making a buck is worth all the lies, . . .deserves each other, off in a corner, away on their own little chunk of society. It is all we can ask for is people to want to live out the truth and not 'error'!
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.
No, that describes those left behind on mainstream social media. We created an alternative to the mainstream media and we have alternative civil rights groups, legal rights groups, women’s rights groups, medical science organizations, environmental science organizations, economic rights organizations, alternatives to Wikipedia and MBFC, new retirement associations, separate education systems, and now social media alternatives. We will not conform to gate keepers who regulate what of us they will consent to tolerate or allow on their platforms. We will create an alternative of our own and totally and completely enshrine two separate America’s that live our lives and communicate totally irrespective of the other. Biden’s seeming election and the intolerance of the social media and their gatekeepers have assured that the separation is accelerating.
You are a member of Parler? I rest my case.
I was one of the first 100,000 to join it. I quit Twitter when I joined.
Just don't let those 'alternative' taxes mess up y'all mind. Then comes trouble with a capital "Trouble."
Because Parler was designed as a free speech response to Twitter, many conservatives banned or purged by other platforms have flocked to the new social media company which has roughly 1.5 million users. John Matze and Jared Thompson launched Parler in 2018, as a sort of stripped down version of Twitter with a chronological feed (unlike the algorithms now used by Twitter and others)
Unlike Twitter, which is often hostile to President Donald Trump, Parler has attempted to court him and reserved a handle for him in case he decides to join the platform. In June 2020, after Twitter took further steps to suppress his tweets (through fact-checking and warnings) Trump threatened to pack it in and shift to Parler, although he hasn’t yet.
Although the platform is open to all, conservatives angered by online censorship joined first and currently make up a majority of voices on Parler. “The whole company was never intended to be a pro-Trump thing,” Matze told CNBC. “A lot of the audience is pro-Trump. I don't care. I'm not judging them either way.”
Matze supports defeating bad ideas through dialogue instead of censorship and criticized other tech companies for controlling content through curation and moderation of content. He says his platform is different and without content bias, although there are some rulesgoverning conduct.
“There are going to be no fact checkers.You’re not going to be told what to think and what to say. A police officer isn’t going to arrest you if you say the wrong opinion,” he told Forbes. “I think that’s all people want.”
read more: https://censortrack.org/social-platform/parler
Censorship on the internet and its social media has become a major issue in today’s America. It’s really sad considering the promise of freedom and free expression of ideas it once had.
Donald Trump deserves everybody who follows after him. Enjoy the relationship in your very own chaotic 'home' please. Really, I mean it.
Trump knows where
his current readership is
and his potential readership is.
It's not on parler with 1.5 million conservative red necks.
Twitter has 330 million members, 145 million, including Trump are daily users.
60% are Dems
No doubt they'll be censoring liberal and progressive views and opinions.
I really don't have a dog in this fight considering I've never used Facebook and will never use 'Parler Tricks' which is obviously where gullible minds gather like little brainless sheep off to get sheered. No doubt vendors will be selling the fuck out of Trump swag and other mind-numbingly stupid conservative kitsch. It's no doubt going to sheer a lot of dough from those morons which I guess is no skin off my nose, but I find it rather hilarious but sad that many religious conservatives refuse to pay into programs that help the poor, homeless and elderly, but they can't wait to spend the little money they have on a dozen overpriced "Trump that Bitch" T-shirts.
If there is a Christian over there displaying such vulgarity, they do not represent God. I may clown a great deal and I may get poisonously impatient with Donald Trump and some of his surrogates around these parts, but I always remember the fruits of the Spirit. Thus, I stay off the 'edge' for fear of stepping off too far.
NOTE: Yes, I have taken to calling Donald Trump, "Trumphole" because he has demonstrated a propensity to dismiss, disregard, and wholly diminish those 'mericans whom he feel are 'not worthy of his attention. He deserves the pointed 'recognition' of being a 'Trumphole.'
Parler is up to 8 million members now. That it is there and is an alternative is what’s important here.
So God have you an exemption regarding respecting our national leaders because but Trump!?
Let me put it this way and see if that helps with the understanding: There is an expression: "Making the preacher curse." Maybe you have heard it?
Well, I have 'suffered' Donald Trump for four years running and he still won't let up even "today" so God is not granting me an exemption for calling Donald Trump "Trumphole" I simply call him out for his provocative intent apart from goodness sake.
It's on me. It is for a reason, nevertheless. Donald TRUMP goes out of his way - way out - to use some of the citizenry of this country as his 'toilet.'
I hope that helps you and that I have answered your question. If not - Ask again!
Now then, what is the reason, y'all may supply for calling Hillary/Kamala/Name goes here a bitch?
“Big tech wants regulation. Regulation stops competition in the marketplace. Regulation keeps big tech big. The first amendment must stay alive online!”
John Matze
Spoken like a man who has not had his "comeuppance' from the expense of a product ruined by 'outlaw' behaviors. Enjoy his new found popularity; it can last for years, or simply a matter of day depending on the man! Every man or woman has a 'saturation point' where not much can they stand going beyond. There is always something a man, woman, boy, or girl won't do for money-sake!
This issue isn’t about money. It’s about truth and freedom. The only outlaw behavior is what takes place at Twitter and Facebook along with Google
He’s the founder of Parler a truly fair and balanced social media where speak your mind really does mean exactly that instead of applying only to the left
Of course it is:
Wikipedia is an unreliable site full of bias and totally unreliable. It is filled with liberal bias and they allow liberals to edit the articles and subjects. Wikipedia can’t be used as a source in writing a term paper in college.
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
True which is why I quit watching them except for prime time commentary shows on weekdays and weekends (Tucker, Hannity, Ingram, waters, Perino, Gutfeld, Levin, Hilton) and Fox and Friends IG up that late or early. I go to OANN or NewsmaxTV or CBN.1 for broadcast news now.
Breitbart and CNS among many others are also great real and true news sources that are widely shared on other conservative platforms so they to can be worked around the fact checkers and to the broader public.
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.
MBFC exists here strictly as a censorship and content control tool so I agree.
Exactly. It was a Christian news site reporting on the existence of an alternative place for us to go and how many had recently done so. This isn’t the first news documented wave of users to that site from Facebook and Twitter.
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.
Some conservatives have already left here over that and it’s only a matter of time before they rerate one too many conservative and or our variety of Christian sites as questionable, propaganda, or pseudoscience so we can’t use it here before the rest of us do likewise.
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?
Exactly on every count! Well said. 👍👏🇺🇸🗽
And we the loyal opposition will be slapping Biden and his voters in the face for the next four years
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 Newsreports.
The seeded topic.
That is the real bottom line..
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!
Those words are simply ridiculous on every count and by every objective measure.
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!
He may have. We just go back to the same divided America as it was when Biden was Vice President and assume he’s the four year delayed 3rd term if that is the case.
The preferred choice would be a place all gathered equally and all opinions welcome, speak your mind was allowed period. One that didn’t censor a point of view or because of where a particular legitimate point of view happened to first originate. Parler is such a place, Gab is such a place, MeWe is such a place, USA.Life is such a place and Good Gopher, Duck Duck Go too. Google, Facebook, and Twitter are not such places.
Facebook and Twitter are turning themselves into echo chambers on their own. No one forced them to alienate themselves from us in the first place.
No, they are not echo chambers, they just delete fake stories, you know like the election was stolen. That's what you're going to get on these other sites - conspiracy theories
It’s not up to them to decide what is fake or not or which people’s opinions or the opinions themselves can’t be shared there on a given topic. It is that kind of content control censorship that breeds contempt for the censor and creates the echo chamber as more leave Twitter and Facebook.
Their company, their rules.
Just like this site, their rules, you break them, you get penalized.
Fucking ridiculous.
The political right could not survive without doing constant lying.
If they want a business model that gets built up to certain heights and then leaks members like a sieve, more power to them!
Right-wing echo chamber doesn't sound any more appealing than left-wing echo chamber.
My thoughts exactly.
I agree. The sad thing is that the big tech social media and others are doing just that to too many by placing a thumb unfairly on side of the scale way too much.
Exactly.
Exactly! See we agree. But we conservatives will no longer stay on what started out as balanced sites once we decide a site that once was fair and balanced and wanted all to openly speak your mind no longer are. Facebook and Twitter are experiencing the beginning of their exodus.
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.
It’s conservatives that get it over 90% of the time whenever these so called fact checkers are used as gate keepers as a tool to control content.
Funny thing about people moving around - it opens room for more people. And quality, that is a thing too.
Banned from both, were you?
No
Prove it.
So, who is D. Van Zandt? According to his Facebook page, he’s an Anarchist who lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, who is originally from Lafayette, New Jersey. He’s the owner of VanZandt Webs and attended William Paterson University of New Jersey. He also is attributed as the developer of his website app, which also lists his home address of 2710 Hill N. Dale Dr. in Greensboro, North Carolina, where he lives with his second wife, Filiz, whom he married after divorcing his first wife.
Apparently, he believes we are a Democracy, not a Republic.
So, understand that this man is not biased at all. He has a political viewpoint and rather than dealing fairly, it seems he picked up the list from the looney professor that listed “fake news” sites to begin his new career.
Sadly, there are a plethora of sites pending review on his website, and most of them are considered “right wing.” The disproportionate numbers of right wing sites to left wing is enough to make anyone question what the bias is of MBFC. One wonders who is actually funding this outfit. After all, the site claims, “We are transparent about our funding sources. If we accept funding from other organizations, we ensure that funders have no influence over the conclusions we reach in our reports.” I haven’t seen any links to see funders, but would be happy to take a look.
Van Zandt claims, “Neither we nor any third parties provide any warranty or guarantee as to the accuracy, timeliness, performance, completeness or suitability of the information and materials found or offered on this website for any particular purpose. You acknowledge that such information and materials may contain inaccuracies or errors and we expressly exclude liability for any such inaccuracies or errors to the fullest extent permitted by law.”
Really? He thinks he can libel people and not be held liable. To make sure we didn’t miss the point, he adds, “Your use of any information or materials on this website is entirely at your own risk, for which we shall not be liable.”
Well, if one person passes on a lie from people who claim others are lying and they are telling the truth, is that not still libel? Indeed, it is. Van Zandt is only kidding himself here.
Finally, in a list of methodology, MBFC claims, “MBFC News recognizes that Politifact, Fact Check and Snopes do a fantastic job fact checking major claims. We feel our role is to check claims that perhaps have been bypassed. We will occasionally select our own fact-checks to research, but primarily rely on submissions from users of our website.”
That right there should tell you everything you need to know about where Van Zandt and his volunteers are coming from. They rely on people who distort the truth and have a liberal bent, such as Snopes, who hire dominatrixes and former porn stars and hookers to do their “fact checking.”
If MBFC did so poorly with FreedomOutpost.com, what do you think they have done with your favorite media outlet?
Source link
https://bloodredpatriots.com/2017/06/15/mediabiasfactcheck-com-biased-gets-heres-arent-telling/
We see what they have done to almost all of my favorite outlets. They are worthless trash. Human waste, total scum. They are anti Christian, anti conservative and make no pretense to hide their bigotry toward us and bias against us.
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.
Sites that use so called fact checker gatekeepers to control content are the ones that create dual echo chambers for each side there when balance is lost and elsewhere when said censorship methods vastly impact one one sides beliefs and viewpoints much more so than the others. With the big tech social media it’s already begun and Parler is riding the first big wave of it. Conservatives and Christians are simply leaving sites that rely on so called independent fact checking gatekeepers to content control our viewpoints for more fair minded places that don’t do that to us.
Sites that use MBFC and fact checkers are protecting themselves from copyright lawsuits to protect your ability to play in the mud.
That you don't get that is the pinnacle of irony.
So how does preventing us from seeding articles from The Stream or American Thinker or Breitbart or Trending Politics etc. do that?
that is complete bull shit...
fair use" allows for the discussion of anything on the internet.
John Matze, the CEO of the rising social media platform Parler, told Fox News’ Tucker Carlson on Tuesday the app has experienced a “massive explosion in growth” throughout the year as more users bail on bigger rivals “where moderation seems to be the norm.”
“We are seeing a massive explosion in growth because people trust that Parler is going to do the right thing,” Matze told Carlson.
Matze’s comments came after Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, along with Twitter founder and boss Jack Dorsey, provided remote testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee over allegations that the social media giants coordinate with big tech rival Google, to make content moderation decisions.
“So, as opposed to these other companies where moderation seems to be the norm, on Parler we have a community jury,” Matze explained. “This is where the people decide what is allowed and what’s not allowed.”
Facebook, and especially Twitter, are coming under renewed fire following fresh allegations of censorship ahead of the 2020 election. In particular, Twitter is facing backlash from President Donald Trump’s supporters after the platform labeled or removed more than 50 of his tweets since Election Day.
The labeling by both platforms who largely employ left-leaning workers has reignited charges of overt censorship from conservatives. But Matze says Parler is different because the user community decides what they do and do not support.
“You are judged by your peers just like our government allows for people,” he said. “You are innocent before proven guilty, unlike these other platforms that are colluding to, I guess, find things to find you guilty for.”
He said that users on Parler are “liberated from restrictions” and free to post their views and ideas.
“We just want to sit back and say ‘social media was supposed to be about the people. It was supposed to be about people having a free voice, being able to be, you know, liberated from restrictions,'” Matze told Carlson. “And so that’s what we are here to offer is a community town square for people to have discussions.”....
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/11/18/parler-ceo-says-platform-is-devoid-of-censorship-and-restrictions-its-not-against-the-law-to-have-opinions-997497
You are exactly right!
This is a private site that has rules agreed to by the members.
Keep your BS.
Been there. It's an Echo chamber of hatred created by,
and populated by people that got kicked off every other social media site for not following the rules.
The worst of the worse.
Best of luck to you over there.
Fair use is a legal doctrine that promotes freedom of expression by permitting the unlicensed use of copyright -protected works in certain circumstances. ... Nature of the copyrighted work: This factor analyzes the degree to which the work that was used relates to copyright's purpose of encouraging creative expression.
It does not mean you can misrepresent material, use it in total, or take it for use of your own.
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The ultimate endorsement of smaller news and social media sites:
TRANSCRIPT PROVIDED VIA CNN:
We conservatives and Christians are going to be treated as equals or we will go elsewhere even if it means a total echo chambers for all where there is no communication or dialogue occurs. It’s better to have a total and complete separation than to communicate under the terms and conditions of our adversaries and enemies. So sad for CNN’s opinion above.
I would rather not communicate with you at all than to do so if you set the terms of said communication and controlled how I could communicate or what I could say. We conservatives are like that. Thus why so many are leaving Twitter and Facebook for Parler, MeWe, Gab, and some are leaving Fox News for NewsMax TV or CBN.1 or OANN. I’m totally serious. It is better to cut off all communication with bi coastal elites as if they don’t exist in our day to day lives that to let them set the terms for anything at all we participate in.
Why drag Christians and Jesus into this 'mess'? What did Jesus say to you about 'those who ride around in purple robes' and those who lay at their doorstep with wounds being licked by 'animals'?
Talk Christianity properly .
Incidentally this:
It takes the form of consistency over and beyond inconsistency to do that. Moreover, Biden is no Trump; he is a good man.
Works for me. when will you be leaving us?
Maybe you can go to Parler and see if saying "we" works for those people too. /s
Ditto!!!
I will likely never give all the former newsvine transplants from when they closed the pleasure of seeing me leave. I’ll be here the rest of my natural life just for you! CornHusker4Palin forever!
There is nothing good about not my president, Biden.
There is less good about our current President.
Hopefully you will find Christ again in the not to distant future.
I virtually watched that interview "live." If you think that was an "ultimate endorsement" of smaller news and social media sites then I disagree.
This is an indicement of people clustering together for dubious outcomes. Trump is not 'aging better' since his stint on the 'mountaintop'!
The fact that it was they who were the ones attacking the move was itself an endorsement of the idea for us. If they say it’s bad we do it all the more because it was them that said it.
Let me be blunt: When somebody explains what is about to occur to yourselves is a convening of a swarm around the lips of a sewer drain—don't do it. God's people ought not to be counted with those others having "itching ears" or "strong delusions." God's people are people of high integrity who 'pine' after God, Jesus, and Spirit. God's people are never 'fallen' after the carnal delights of any reprobate and unrepentant man or woman.
I will not bite my tongue when I write this: Consider your ways. Our God is not mocked. God showed you and yours for four years what kind of "king" would rule over you and God pulled the "kingdom" away from Donald Trump for his arrogance, belligerence, and selfishness.
Not sure what that had to do with my post or the seeded article but just in case it doesn’t all work out for us now, Trump 2024!
Trump 2024?
Make America Gag Again
Maybe your part of it. The rest of us between the coasts will love it. Make America Great Again again!
Sure. That's why Biden won "between the coasts" Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin... as well as millions of votes in major metropolitan (urban and suburban) areas in almost every "between the coasts" state Trump won.
It would the height of arrogance for anyone to claim to speak "for the rest of us", wouldn't it?
Parler CEO John Matze called Facebook’sreported “secret internal algorithm” Orwellian on Wednesday.
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Matze made the comment during an appearance on “Fox & Friends” while reacting to a report in The New York Times Tuesday titled, “Facebook Struggles to Balance Civility and Growth.”
Citing people familiar with CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s decision, the report alleged he changed the platform’s algorithm following the 2020 election to highlight outlets like CNN, NPR and The New York Times, which “resulted in a spike in visibility” for the “big, mainstream publishers.” The change reportedly caused “posts from highly engaged hyperpartisan pages, such as Breitbart and Occupy Democrats” to become “less visible” in news feeds.
“Parler believes that people should make the determination for themselves what they think is hyperpartisan or they believe in and what they’d like to follow and they can choose on their own on Parler what they’d like to get engaged with,” Matze said in response.
“So for me, this kind of Facebook secret internal algorithm thing is kind of Orwellian,” alluding to the dystopian reality depicted in George Orwell's novel "1984."
He noted Parler believes “in having a simple chronological algorithm that allows people to filter out and determine what they want to view and I think that’s the best way.”
“I don’t think any of us likes hyperpartisan content,” Matze said. “And so when people can decide on their own what they believe is within the norms of society and what they want to talk about, we should let them choose on their own.”
In a statement responding to The New York Times report, Facebook spokesperson Joe Osborne said Tuesday, “There are many variables at play in every product decision we make, all aimed at creating the best possible experience for people
“The assertions in this report are based on sources who have no product decision-making authority and are advancing their own narrow impression of how our process works,” Osborne continued.
Host Brian Kilmeade asked Matze on Wednesday how Parler operates as a platform that “doesn’t care” about political affiliations.
“We do that by standing by our values and not getting involved and not ranking media outlets based of off some kind of internal perception,” Matze said.
“We don’t pretend to be experts about the news or pretend to be experts about fact-checking,” he explained. “We just offer people a platform and let everybody else decide what they want and what they want to engage with and I think that’s the right way to do it.”
He stressed that the company sticks “to what we know, which is social media” and “delivering content that you asked for and doing it in a way that’s not biased.”
He went on to say that “there’s no way” that “getting into this kind of business of checking people’s news articles for potential bias” will be fair.
read more: https://www.foxnews.com/media/parler-facebooks-secret-algorithm-orwellian
This man is providing a great service to the American people.
"The American People" are a lot more diverse than what some people see them to be. Furthermore, Twitter considered itself doing a great service to all the "American" people of the United States, until that lying, misleading, cheating, obfuscating, inconsistent, "DICK" of a president decided to wreck the site for his own indulgences.
Parler can expect the same. Play ball with a Trumphole and risk ultimate temporary disruption. You can't play with some people