Most of the information was cut and pasted from other sources. There was no need to hide that behind “Excerpted...”
This isn’t clickbait central. We’re all paying for use of this site. If you want to be stingy with your excerpts, fine. But 1) it’s your own column and 2) you don’t own the part of your column that is pasted from Parler.
This isn’t clickbait central. We’re all paying for use of this site. If you want to be stingy with your excerpts, fine. But 1) it’s your own column and 2) you don’t own the part of your column that is pasted from Parler.
First of all, NONE of my column is "pasted from Parler" so know what you are talking about when you make a claim not based on fact. Secondly, I have been posting articles from NEWSBUSTERS (note: Not Parler) for years exactly the same way without complaint except for you and Humblegunner so if you want to be in that company, you are welcome to it.
You are correct. It’s not from Parler. You re-post the following from Tina Nguyen’s screed, “On Parler, MAGA’s post-election world view blossoms with no pushback” from Politico.
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Since the election, President Donald Trump and his allies have faced fact-checks, condemnation and restrictions when trying to spread inconclusive evidence of voter fraud and leftist violence on social media.
But over on Parler, there’s a new, millions-strong MAGA universe where conservatives are freely spreading these claims and reinforcing their belief that Democrats have stolen the election from Trump.
Hashtags on Parler denoting Trump’s favorite conspiracy theories — #Dominion, #Sharpiegate, #QAnon — trend freely, without the restrictions Twitter and Facebook have instituted to suppress them.
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The set-up gives MAGA conservatives an easy way to simply dismiss the post-election beliefs of the public at large, the widely accepted reports in mainstream news outlets and the word of experts and even some government officials. There is now a robust, consequence-free echo chamber for them that confirms a worldview in which a rigged election system falsely gave Biden a victory, and leftist thugs are taking to the streets to ensure the outcome isn’t overturned. And with over 4 million new downloads since Election Day — nearly doubling the site’s user base — that echo chamber is expanding rapidly.
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“Parler’s positioning as a receptacle for Trump’s MAGA supporters is part of a longstanding trend of conservatives threatening a Twitter exodus over claims of censorship and persecution,” said Karim Zidan, a journalist with the left-leaning watchdog group Right Wing Watch. “Twitter’s heavy moderation of posts involving election-fraud conspiracy theories and disinformation has caused MAGA supporters to slowly transition to Parler under the guise of free speech.”
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Interspersed with nine sentences and sentence fragments of your own that add up to an “article.”
I’m just saying the cut and pasted portion can be posted here even if you don’t want your nine sentences and sentence fragments posted here in full. No need to send paying FReepers to some other site to read it, clickbait style. Don’t like my formatting when I post the part you didn’t write? Don’t complain. You had your chance to format it the way you would have wanted.