Hello, NurdCasters. I'm Scott Bland. You've probably seen Donald Trump's most recent tweets.

I won, I won, etc, etc.

But what happens a few seconds later?

Twitter posts a warning, saying some version of

this claim is disputed.

Something like that.

Goes right along the bottom of the tweet,

sometimes even blacks out the whole tweet itself.

Well, listeners, there's a few new apps in town.

And for one, they don't do warning labels.

Parlor is interesting because it's not actually as kind of technologically advanced a platform

as Twitter in a lot of ways, but it's kind of Libertarian Leaning.

It's saying that they're not going to do anything to censor people's free speech.

These apps are pretty popular and they're getting even more popular.

And they're kind of like the Wild West.

If you're looking for the sheriff, don't check the saloons.

It's in the next town over.

Anyway, there are some big reasons why people like them.

And I think that talkers on the right

are very good at kind of putting up their audience

and making people feel smart.

They're very good at making things intriguing and scandalous.

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