Controversial conservative social media site Parler to return in 2024
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Conservative social media platform Parler says it’s planning a comeback after shuttering in April following a string of controversies and hosting illicit content.
Conservative social media platform Parler says it’s planning a comeback after shuttering in April following a string of controversies and hosting illicit content. Parler is relaunching in the first quarter of 2024 to “return to its roots as a robust marketplace of ideas,” according to a company statement, emerging just as the 2024 presidential race amps up. Launched in 2018 and popular with conservative audiences in its prime, Parler also found a fan base among users frustrated by speech rules on more mainstream platforms like Twitter. In that era, Twitter had removed numerous user accounts for violating its policies on speech, banning far-right figures such as Andrew Tate, Alex Jones and even President Donald Trump. Amid some normal social media discussions and behavior, the site also became an arena for forms of hate speech and misinformation, including election denial claims. Accounts with swastikas as their profile pictures and racist posts were common, and members of the Proud Boys, adherents of conspiracy theory QAnon, anti-government extremists and white supremacists all openly promoted their views on Parler, according to a 2020 ADL report. The platform was only shunned by major app stores after rioters used it as a platform to plan the Jan. 6th Capitol attacks. “We prefer not to continue to be associated with the events of January 6th,” company spokeswoman Elise Pierotti said in a statement to CNN.
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