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Pushed Off Twitter, Extreme Right Finds Home on 'Free Speech' Social Networks

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.2727 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In the weeks leading up to the presidential election, Twitter and Facebook drew praise from political misinformation watchdogs for attaching warning labels to misleading posts and banning accounts associated with QAnon and other extremist groups. But those moves may have breathed life into so-called "free speech" platforms like Parler, where some prominent Trump supporters have migrated. We'll talk about the rising popularity of conservative social networks and their implications for our already deeply fractured national political discourse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Coming up on forum, in the weeks leading up to the presidential election,

1:21.0

Twitter and Facebook grew praise from political misinformation watchdogs for attaching warning labels to misleading posts and banning accounts associated with QAnon and extremist groups.

1:28.0

But those moves may have breathed life into so-called free speech platforms like Parlor,

1:33.5

where banned right-wing stars like Alex Jones have found a home and where prominent

1:37.4

Trump supporters have migrated.

1:39.2

We'll look at the rising popularity of these alternative social networks and their implications

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for our already

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fractured national political discourse. Join us.

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This is Forum. I'm Nina Kim.

2:02.9

Groups demanding election recounts and peddling false claims of election fraud are moving to social media sites like Parlor.

2:09.8

That's after Facebook tried to ban Stop the Steel and other similar groups, and after Twitter began more aggressively fact-checking the president. For much

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