MSM scrambles to smear ‘free speech’ platform Parler as Twitter censorship wave pushes conservatives out

“Free speech driven” social network Parler is being smeared as a “far right” cesspool as a Twitter crackdown drives conservative signups – even as its new users include milquetoast Republican politicians like Ted Cruz.

Like Gab before it, Parler has attracted celebrity Twitter and Facebook rejects, lured by the promise of a censor-free experience, and a flood of users eager to interact with their banned idols – or just to express themselves without fear of deplatforming. And the market for alternative platforms is booming – Parler’s app was the second-most-popular download in the App Store’s News category as of Thursday.

Some 500,000 users reportedly joined the platform after Twitter, following in the footsteps of Facebook and stepping up its ideologically-motivated censorship, banned conservative meme-maker Carpe Donktum and locked National Pulse editor Raheem Kassam’s account on Tuesday.

Twitter has also come under fire from the right for hiding a handful of President Donald Trump’s tweets behind a warning label. Even mainstream conservatives are growing restive, and Parler’s “non-biased free speech” approach is looking awfully attractive in the current political climate.

Accordingly, mainstream media have done their best to rain on Parler’s parade. Newsweek called it a “safe space for the far right,” and the app’s Wikipedia writeup was especially pearl-clutchy, stating that Parler was known for “the presence and proliferation of alt-right, neo-nazi, anti-feminist, and conspiracy theory content.”

Twitter’s blue-checks made withering comments about the platform and the big names it had attracted.

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