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Hi, Stephanie McCreement from the Washington Post.

This is Post Reports.

I'm routine powers.

It's Monday, January 11th.

Today, how tech platforms are handling far-right extremism online and a brief history of petty

presidents.

So parlor is like Facebook except none of your friends and family and all political

mostly right-wing talk.

Drew Harwell is a tech reporter for the post.

Parlor emerged out of this belief from certain conservatives online that Twitter was censoring

them and other social media were suppressing them and so they needed to all gather on

this site that promises free speech, no moderation, no elites judging you for what you think.

And now we're talking about parlor because of the events of January 6th and the fact

that a lot of the conversation leading up to that, that discussion happened on parlor.

Yeah, so parlor was one of the main ways that people were actually starting to organize

and not just organized but also talk about sort of threats of violence, how to sneak guns

into DC, what to do when you get there, what politicians should be afraid of.

So finally, the companies that build the infrastructure that parlor relies on finally said enough

is enough.

And I'm going to work with you anymore.

After the insurrection attempt on Wednesday and the days after Apple and Google started

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