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Anti-Twitter conservatives in US push rival Parler as alternative
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IANS | 29 Jun, 2020
With Twitter showing no signs of relenting in flagging tweets that
violate its policies, including those of US President Donald Trump,
several Republican politicians have started pushing the social media
platform Parler as an alternative.
From Ted Cruz and Jim Jordan
to Elise Stefanik and Nikki Haley, many have already joined the platform
which was founded by computer scientists John Matze in 2018.
Leading
the push to make a shift to Parler is Trump campaign manager Brad
Parscale who has been on the platform for about two years now.
In
a post last month, he even made some suggestions to make Parler emerge
as an attractive alternative to Twitter. These recommendations included
spending money on luring more people from the media and hiring a
designer, according to a report in CNBC.
Parler calls itself "an unbiased social media focused on real user experiences and engagement."
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of users on the platform increased from 1 million to more than 1.5
million over the course of about one week after The Wall Street Journal
last week said the Trump administration was in search of alternatives to
Facebook and Twitter over fears that these two platforms could flag or
remove more content as the election approaches.
However, this
sudden growth has also put the 27-year-old Matze, who is also the CEO of
Parler, in a peculiar position as he does not want the platform to be
seen as an echo chamber for pro conservatives.
In a bid to
attract liberals to the platform, Parler even announced a $20,000
"progressive bounty" to a progressive pundit, commentator or writer with
50,000 followers on Twitter or Facebook for opening a Parler account
and engaging in an open debate.
In fact, Parler doubled the amount after it found few takers for its earlier $10,000 proposal.
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