Why People Are Leaving Twitter For Parler
S3studio/Getty Images By Christine-Marie Liwag Dixon/Nov. 11, 2020 11:26 am EST
The 2020 election has been especially polarizing, with people not only split over the candidates, Joe Biden and Donald Trump but also over the results of the election. While major news outlets called the election in favor of Biden a few days after the November 3 election, Trump has refused to concede the election and has opened investigations into voter fraud, insisting that he is the true winner of the race.
Trump has taken to Twitter with his claims, as have many of his allies. Many of their tweets have been flagged by the social media platform, like a November 7 tweet from Trump in which he wrote, “THE OBSERVERS WERE NOT ALLOWED INTO THE COUNTING ROOMS. I WON THE ELECTION, GOT 71,000,000 LEGAL VOTES. BAD THINGS HAPPENED WHICH OUR OBSERVERS WERE NOT ALLOWED TO SEE. NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE. MILLIONS OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS WERE SENT TO PEOPLE WHO NEVER ASKED FOR THEM!” The tweet is accompanied by a message from Twitter that reads, “This claim about election fraud is disputed” and links to several sources that say that claims of widespread voter fraud lack evidence. Twitter’s crackdown on misinformation has many people leaving the platform for a site called Parler.
Why People Are Leaving Twitter For Parler
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By Christine-Marie Liwag Dixon/Nov. 11, 2020 11:26 am EST
The 2020 election has been especially polarizing, with people not only split over the candidates, Joe Biden and Donald Trump but also over the results of the election. While major news outlets called the election in favor of Biden a few days after the November 3 election, Trump has refused to concede the election and has opened investigations into voter fraud, insisting that he is the true winner of the race.
Trump has taken to Twitter with his claims, as have many of his allies. Many of their tweets have been flagged by the social media platform, like a November 7 tweet from Trump in which he wrote, “THE OBSERVERS WERE NOT ALLOWED INTO THE COUNTING ROOMS. I WON THE ELECTION, GOT 71,000,000 LEGAL VOTES. BAD THINGS HAPPENED WHICH OUR OBSERVERS WERE NOT ALLOWED TO SEE. NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE. MILLIONS OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS WERE SENT TO PEOPLE WHO NEVER ASKED FOR THEM!” The tweet is accompanied by a message from Twitter that reads, “This claim about election fraud is disputed” and links to several sources that say that claims of widespread voter fraud lack evidence. Twitter’s crackdown on misinformation has many people leaving the platform for a site called Parler.
Trump has taken to Twitter with his claims, as have many of his allies. Many of their tweets have been flagged by the social media platform, like a November 7 tweet from Trump in which he wrote, “THE OBSERVERS WERE NOT ALLOWED INTO THE COUNTING ROOMS. I WON THE ELECTION, GOT 71,000,000 LEGAL VOTES. BAD THINGS HAPPENED WHICH OUR OBSERVERS WERE NOT ALLOWED TO SEE. NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE. MILLIONS OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS WERE SENT TO PEOPLE WHO NEVER ASKED FOR THEM!” The tweet is accompanied by a message from Twitter that reads, “This claim about election fraud is disputed” and links to several sources that say that claims of widespread voter fraud lack evidence.
Twitter’s crackdown on misinformation has many people leaving the platform for a site called Parler.
What is Parler?
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Many people are hopeful that Trump will leave Twitter for the newer platform. “TRUMP NEEDS TO GET ACTIVE ON PARLER, THEY WONT CENSOR HIM THERE,” tweeted one Trump supporter.
