His social media app—a new favorite of President Trump’s and other GOP leaders—has been under siege for the past few hours. Listening to what they say are 1.7 million users, almost double the amount of people on the app in April. And he may go a step further than that and move his own digital presence—a key factor in his 2016 victory—over to an app like Parler. "I've been talking about free speech for a while before it was cool," says John Matze, 27, the ... [+] founder of Parler, a new social media app. Parler functions like a barebones Twitter with users (such as the Trumps and Giuliani) to follow and a feed to see their posts.

Source: Forbes June 27, 2020 15:33 UTC