Title: Parler Is Down. What Will Happen to the Far-Right Media Ecosystem? - Rolling Stone
Headings: Parler Is Down. What Will Happen to the Far-Right Media Ecosystem?
Parler Is Down. What Will Happen to the Far-Right Media Ecosystem?
Amazon, Google, and Apple all pulled services from the ‘free-speech’ app because of users’ role in organizing the January 6th attempted insurrection at the Capitol

Content: Why didn’t [Apple] give the same notice to Facebook?” he says. “ It seems weird because Facebook is way worse in terms of Parler. You wouldn’t have had a January 6th event without Facebook.” Though Parler has been active since 2018, it only received a significant uptick in users in 2020, in response to perceived increased censorship and bias against conservative rhetoric on big-tech platforms like Facebook and Twitter, after some on the right were expelled from such platforms for violating their terms of service against hate speech ( there is no evidence such bias exists ). Along with competitors like MeWe and Gab, Parler was also subject to a substantial boost following the election, when Facebook and Twitter struggled to curb the proliferation of election-related misinformation on their platforms, at one point rising to Number One on the app store. Following this post-election boost, however, as well as a flurry of media coverage proclaiming it to be an alternative to other social media platforms, Parler’s growth had stagnated somewhat prior to its servers being taken down. According to a Media Matters investigation, growth and user activity has slowed down in recent weeks; moreover, the most prominent influencers who had migrated over to Parler, such as Sen. Ted Cruz and Mark Levin, continued to actively post on Twitter and other platforms, rarely if ever posting original “parleys” (Parler’s term for posts) that had not appeared elsewhere. Carusone also points out that with all the media attention on Parler, the platform had actually cracked down on moderation in recent weeks, which included removing incendiary posts from pro-Trump lawyer L. Lin Wood. “