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After a Year in Exile, Parler Is Back on the Web. But Why?
Parler is back, baby. After a year-long hiatus from the web, the conservative social media site has returned to the internet, and this time its new owners are promising it won’t become the radical rightwing hellscape it was when it left. Parler has been offline since last April when it was bought by a media…
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Parler Could Get a Spin-Off by Disgruntled Former Employees
Disgruntled former Parler employees are pushing back against Starboard’s acquisition of the platform, saying they will create their own version of the far-right social media site that fulfils its original goals. Known for its role in the January 6 attack on the Capitol, the platform is reportedly heading in a direction that has frustrated its…
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The Year Ahead in Social Media
2022 was the year of Twitter and Elon Musk: the shit show that keeps on giving. While we will continue to watch the destruction of old, Pre-Musk Twitter in 2023, it will create the first real opening for a new social media platform in years. That doesn’t mean that Twitter will die anytime soon, but…
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5 of the Trashiest Emails I’ve Gotten From Parler
In fall 2020 I was making a lot of really bad life decisions. I don’t know if it was the stress of the pandemic, the chaos in my personal life, or my journalistic obligations to stay up on tech news, but for some reason I decided to sign up for Parler. That wasn’t the biggest…