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 say you’ll believe anything, as long as we prefix it with “Experts say ...”.
Name these Experts. I have experts that name Twitter and Facebook contributing to riots across the country and even to the so called “DC Riots”.
While ignoring the fact that liberals turning mainstream media, academia and social media into liberal echo chambers does the same.
What ‘experts’?
How dare you compare them to Nazis, you...Nazi./s
ABC’s “Experts”
Expert...Ex = A has been Pert = a Drip....Expert = A has been drip...Expert is just someone who thinks he knows everything, but doesn’t know S#it!!
They come from boxes of cracker jacks.😏
Attacks on Ferguson, Seattle, Portland, Oklahoma City, Baltimore, Wauwatosa, etc. by Antifa/BLM were organized on Facebook/Twitter, but that’s OK because shut up.
Experts say is the new race card.
“Trust science, trust the experts. “
Take that to any century in the past, more likely a death sentence than safety/security/freedom.
What are these experts names...did they report any of the evidence of voter fraud?
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