The platform has also hosted several videos from the proscribed far-right terrorist group National Action, now taken down. Photograph: BitChute.comLast week the chief executive of Gab, Andrew Torba, sent an email to users attacking what he alleged was the “anti-white, anti-Trump and anti-conservative bias” on more mainstream social media platforms. Billing itself as an alternative to Twitter, Parler is another social media platform rapidly gaining popularity, which describes itself as “a non-biased free-speech driven entity”. Extremism experts caution that deplatforming such individuals is akin to “whack-a-mole” in the sense that removing them from one platform often drives them to less regulated social media sites. When asked if he seriously defended his platform streaming videos of terrorist atrocities, Vahey did not respond.

Source: The Guardian June 28, 2020 06:56 UTC