What is Parler? Parler Review

Parler is a large social media application in the United States. It was launched in 2018 and is headquartered in Nevada. Parler has more than 8 million users, most of whom are from the conservative camp.

Development History

The birth of Parler is directly related to the change in the controversial content stance of American social networking sites. After being blocked by mainstream social platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, US President Trump can no longer incite his supporters in the original way. The only social platform left for them is Parler, known as the "right-wing Twitter." This has prompted a large number of conservative politicians, netizens and media to move to Parler, which "defends freedom of speech." Republican Senator Ted Cruz, Republican House leader Kevin McCarthy, conservative media The Washington Times and Trump's family are all on Parler.

Software Positioning

"The Town Square of the World". Here, users can express their opinions freely and openly without worrying about being "de-platformed"; regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, age, or religion, all users are treated equally by the platform and can "be themselves".

Features

The platform will minimize the deletion and blocking of posts, and return the right to make judgments to individual users; the platform will not interfere with the user's information flow - "and will not pretend to be able to do so" - but will provide a series of auxiliary tools to allow users to decide for themselves what content to watch and what not to watch.

Software Contents

On Parler, you can see extreme content that other mainstream social media have collectively banned, and there is almost no processing here. On Parler, you can see a large number of conspiracy theories about QAnon, election fraud, and the COVID-19 pandemic is a lie. You can see inflammatory content about organizing protests and even threatening to launch riots. After Vice President Pence refused to boycott the election results, some extremists even called for Pence to be executed on Parler.

Social Events

On January 9, 2021, Apple formally sent a letter to Parler, saying that it had received a large number of complaints about Parler content, accusing the social application of being used to plan and organize the storming of the Capitol, and continuing to be used to plan and intensify subsequent illegal and dangerous activities. Apple therefore asked Parler to submit an update within 24 hours and come up with a content rectification plan.

On January 9, 2021, Google accused Parler of hosting a large amount of content inciting violence and removed it from Google Play.

On January 10, 2021, Amazon moved Parler, a social platform popular among American conservatives, out of its cloud computing service platform (AWS).

According to the New York Times, Parler was removed from the Apple App Store indefinitely. Apple said that Parler allowed users to post too much content that encouraged violence and crime.