Posted on 01/13/2021 8:43:59 AM PST by dirtboy
As Trump loyalists stormed the U.S. Capitol last week, conservative-leaning social media sites like Parler and Gab erupted with talk of revolution and civil war, with trending hashtags like #StormTheCapitol.
Experts tell ABC News that services like Parler -- whose app has now been removed from the leading app stores -- helped create echo chambers for violence and extremist views, then provided a platform for some of the coordination of last week's attack.
And now that the tech industry is moving to crack down on toxic rhetoric, many of those voices have gone in search of alternative platforms.
"We've seen this coming for a while," Ben Decker, founder and CEO of Memetica, a company that provides intelligence and risk advisory services regarding harassment, disinformation, and violent extremism, told ABC News. "The volume of stochastic violence on Parler and similar platforms has always been high; it just took the horrific actions of last week for any tech companies to respond."
MORE: An attempted murderer, a lawmaker, white supremacists: Police records shed light on those arrested in Capitol siege "What's most horrifying and concerning about the rise of these new platforms is, we're only one incident away from another Tree of Life shooting," Decker said of the 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue attack in which 11 worshipers were shot dead by a man who authorities say used Gab to promote his racist views.
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“experts”
Who hands out the expert buttons?
how can we be in an echo chamber with so many outlets telling us we are wrong.
So even if private businesses like Amazon, Google, and Apple can't stomp out Gab, Parler, Telegram, etc. then the Dems can construct something like the Chinese Great Firewall and end all conversations they don't want people to hear.
I’m a real expert. I use both Gab and Parler and have no inclinations towards political violence.
deeper in the article it mentions how some BLM rioters posted their leftist views on Facebook and Twitter
just kidding
The purpose of Leftist propaganda is not to persuade or mislead. It is humiliation.
We KNOW what they are publishing crap, but they are forcing us to swallow it or else.
Echo chambers from apps like Reddit and Facebook contributed to BLM looting , arson and murder last year according to “experts”
Say hello to “The Fairness Doctrine”.
“Experts” say that, huh, Laura?
AKA Privately Funded Propaganda.
Once again proving that anything said after “experts say” is wholly made up crap.
Yup, say hello to the Biden admin ginning up some reason to declare these sites shutdown as tools of domestic terrorism and these stories will prep the battlefield and give cover for that action.
The paid liars for the politicians are out in force.
I’ll most likely get flamed for this, but it’s probably true since so much of Social Media is thick with Q-Anon bullshit.
Hey Q-Bots... Go away... You’re not helping anything or anyone, except for the opposition.
ABC and the other _networks_ are the echo chamber; per communist chamber.
No it was antifa thugs mingling in the crowd.
Listening to an “Expert” on fake news abc brings nothing but trouble for everyone.
That is next..IMHO!
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