001. Parler Analysis-Part I: A Glance at Online Extremism
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Have you heard about… Parler? A plethora of social media emerges to the public sight every year. While some of them made their breakthrough by inventing new features, others paved their way out by catering to specific communities, for example, alt-right and extremist communities. Walking on the wild side, these platforms gained increasing popularity after their mainstream counterparts, the “Big Tech”, namely Facebook and Twitter, have taken actions to moderate the user content (Jasser et al., 2021). Branding themselves with selling points like “free speech” and “express yourself openly” (Parler, 2021), they attract people who feel pressured by the content regulation, and were blocked or suspended by the platform moderators. Unfortunately, and ironically, these platforms didn’t evolve to a bona fide free place, but an echo chamber for extreme right-wing ideologies, tin-foil-hat conspiracies, and flaky-loony misinformation.
001. Parler Analysis-Part I: A Glance at Online Extremism
001. Parler Analysis-Part I: A Glance at…
001. Parler Analysis-Part I: A Glance at Online Extremism
Have you heard about… Parler? A plethora of social media emerges to the public sight every year. While some of them made their breakthrough by inventing new features, others paved their way out by catering to specific communities, for example, alt-right and extremist communities. Walking on the wild side, these platforms gained increasing popularity after their mainstream counterparts, the “Big Tech”, namely Facebook and Twitter, have taken actions to moderate the user content (Jasser et al., 2021). Branding themselves with selling points like “free speech” and “express yourself openly” (Parler, 2021), they attract people who feel pressured by the content regulation, and were blocked or suspended by the platform moderators. Unfortunately, and ironically, these platforms didn’t evolve to a bona fide free place, but an echo chamber for extreme right-wing ideologies, tin-foil-hat conspiracies, and flaky-loony misinformation.