They say they’ll be back up before the election. A lot of alternatives to the services they got deplatformed from stepped up to provide what was needed, and they’re carrying out the changeover now.
remember Brazil’s Bolsonaro supporters had to migrate to Gab, when they were banned from WhattsApp. all the censorship going on is meant to shut down conservatives:
20 Oct: Bloomberg: WhatsApp Bans More Than 100,000 Accounts in Brazil Election
By Sarah Frier and Giulia Camillo; With assistance by David Biller
WhatsApp banned hundreds of thousands of accounts in Brazil as the Facebook Inc. messaging service struggles to contain spam, misinformation and political shenanigans ahead of a runoff election in Latin America’s largest country...
Facebook set up a “war room” to stem the tide of hate speech, false information and other damaging content during Brazil’s election this month, marking a test for the social network ahead of the November midterm elections in the U.S...
Bolsonaro wrote on Twitter that his opponent’s party “isn’t being damaged by fake news, but rather by the TRUTH.” ...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-19/whatsapp-bans-more-than-100-000-accounts-in-brazil-election
30 Oct: ABC Australia: What’s the story behind Gab, the favoured platform of the US alt-right?
The Signal By Stephen Smiley and Angela Lavoipierre
And there are also other communities — for instance, there was an incident recently where there was something going on with Brazilian social media so a lot of Brazilians set up accounts on Gab.
(Will Sommers, The Daily Beast) “So essentially, communities that have sort of been exiled from other social media platforms end up on Gab.”...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-30/pittsburgh-massacre-whats-behind-us-alt-right-platform-gab/10444202
It’s a bit rough there but I enjoy the humor. Some of the folks are very quick on the news. Those behemoth silicone valley people need their corporations bulldozed and return the valley to orchards. If they’re nice maybe I’d see if they can pick fruit with the illegals on my cousins farm :>)