On the Day Twitter Banned Trump, Parler Downloads Surged by More Than 500%
The service is now shut down as it seeks a new hosting service
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3 min readJan 11, 2021
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App downloads of “free speech” platforms Parler and MeWe jumped in the days following riots at the Capitol on Wednesday and the subsequent permanent suspension of President Donald Trump’s Twitter account. Before Parler’s removal from…