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Why Everyone Should Be Concerned About Parler Being Booted From the Internet
The real coordinated inauthentic behavior on social media made itself abundantly clear in the aftermath of the assault on Congress. The culprit isn’t a troll farm or Russian influence. This time, the coordinated inauthentic behavior is coming from California.
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Parler finds refuge with right-leaning webhosting service
A handful of Big Tech companies moved to take down social media platform Parler over the weekend, but it appears to have found a new company to help try to keep its website running. On Monday, Parler registered its domain and server to be hosted by Epik, an internet webhosting company known for working with right-leaning websites. Gab, another social media platform popular with conservatives, also uses Epik. A web domain search shows that Parler is now registered with Epik.
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Beyond Platforms: Private Censorship, Parler, and the Stack
Last week, following riots that saw supporters of President Trump breach and sack parts of the Capitol building, Facebook and Twitter made the decision to give the president the boot.
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Why Parler's revival on public cloud is complicated and unlikely
Even if the right-wing social network Parler wasn't being rejected by every major public cloud and hosting company, it would find it almost impossible to move to another site.
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Twitter, in Widening Crackdown, Removes Over 70,000 QAnon Accounts
The actions followed the barring of President Trump from the service last week, as Twitter has moved to distance itself from violent content.
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Citing 'censorship' concerns, North Idaho internet provider blocks Facebook, Twitter
The actions of Your T1 WIFI, which provides internet services to North Idaho and the Spokane area, could violate Washington state's Net Neutrality law.
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Parler users unknowingly gave away personal information storming Capitol Hill
Insurrectionists that stormed Capitol Hill and uploaded videos to the right-wing social media app Parler gave away their GPS coordinates to the app. That data has now been scraped and archived by researchers, who could use the data to help identify criminals. Many rioters including the Proud Boys - a Southern Poverty Law Center designated hate group – shared videos on the app, but hacker “@donk_enby” on Twitter has shown that the metadata (information about the content uploaded, such as number of megapixels in the videos or rotation) includes GPS positioning.
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Every Deleted Parler Post, Many With Users' Location Data, Has Been Archived
In the wake of the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by scores of President Trump’s supporters, a lone researcher began an effort to catalogue the posts of social media users across Parler, a platform founded to provide conservative users a safe haven for uninhibited “free speech” — but which ultimately devolved into a hotbed of far-right conspiracy theories, unchecked racism, and death threats aimed at prominent politicians.
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Amazon is removing Parler from its web hosting service, meaning the platform will go offline Sunday if it can't find another host
Amazon's decision came amid calls for the company to stop providing services to Parler, after people used the site to plan the deadly Capitol riots.
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The Guy Who Built a Trump Twitter Archive Says He’ll Follow Him to Parler If He Has To
“I wasn't thinking that it would just disappear one day.”
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Parler may go offline after Amazon, Apple and Google reject social network
Parler faces an uncertain future after Amazon reportedly said it would no long host the social network, and Apple suspended it from its App Store over its role in last week’s attack on the US Capitol by a pro-Trump mob. The social network increasingly favoured by conservatives and extremists had violated its terms of service and would no longer be hosted from midnight Sunday, reported Buzzfeed, citing a letter sent by Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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Parler's CEO John Matze responded angrily after Jack Dorsey endorsed Apple's removal of the social network favored by conservatives
John Matze and Jack Dorsey, the CEOs of Parler and Twitter were at at odds with each other, and posted on their own sites about Apple's ban of Parler.
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Amazon, Apple, and Google Cut Off Parler, Citing Failure to Moderate Extremism
Parler, the “free speech” Twitter competitor that has become an anything-goes haven for diehard Trump supporters and right-wing extremists — and where users planned, promoted, and/or glorified Wednesday’s deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob — may not survive the Trump era.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Says Donald Trump Will Go Down In History As Worst President Ever
Arnold Schwarzenegger has branded Donald Trump ‘a failed leader’ and said he will go down as ‘the worst president ever’ in a new video. Posting to Twitter, the actor recalled his childhood growing up in Austria and the long-lasting impact of the Night of Broken Glass, ‘a night of rampage against the Jews carried out in 1938 by the Nazi equivalent of the Proud Boys,’ he said.
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Google suspends Parler social networking app from Play Store; Apple gives 24-hour warning
Alphabet Inc's Google on Friday suspended the Parler social networking service from its app store, citing posts inciting violence and demanding “robust” content moderation from the app favored by many supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Twitter suspends Trump's account
None of his previous tweets can be seen.
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Twitter should immediately and permanently ban Trump
Opinion: As should Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and all other responsible social media sites. The right to free speech doesn't give you the right to right to shout fraud in a fractured country.
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Why Facebook Is Bad, Twitter Might Be a Little Bit Good, and Social Media Is Rotting Our Brains
Tech oracle Jaron Lanier warned us all about the evils of social media. Too few of us listened. Now, in the most chaotic of moments, his fears—and his bighearted solutions—are more urgent than ever.
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Twitter locks Donald Trump's account as Facebook, Instagram ban him for 24 hours
All it took was an attempted coup.
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Study: Folklore structure reveals how conspiracy theories emerge, fall apart
Rumors swirling around 2016 Wikileaks dump was glue that held "Pizzagate" together.