The Rise Of Conservative Social Media — With The New Yorker's Clare Malone and Stanford's David Thiel

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Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Clare Malone is a staff writer at The New Yorker who recently wrote about Gettr, a rising conservative social network. David Thiel is the big data architect and chief technology officer of the Stanford Internet Observatory, where he's researched Gettr's usage. The pair join Big Technology Podcast to discuss Gettr — and its counterparts' — potential to take on incumbent social networks. We dig into the network's growth, its funding sources, and how mainstream social network policies open the door for its success. Here's Clare's story: https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/can-gettr-become-the-online-gathering-place-for-trumps-gop Here's David's research: https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/topologies-and-tribulations-gettr

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0:57.0	of the tech world and beyond.
0:59.2	Well, with big platforms like Facebook and Twitter banning users like Marjorie Taylor Green
1:04.7	and other conservatives, I think it's time for us to spend an episode talking about
1:08.8	what happens after that.
1:10.2	And that is the rise of
1:11.5	conservative niche social networks, platforms like parlor, platforms like Getter, which we'll talk about
1:18.7	in length today. And here to do it with us, we have an amazing one to combo. Claire Malone is
1:24.6	joining us. She's a staff writer at The New Yorker who just finished and just published a story on Getter.
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