Fact-Checked on Facebook and Twitter, Conservatives Switch Their Apps


By Mike Isaac and Kellen Browning Nov. 11, 2020

Millions of people have migrated away from Facebook and Twitter since the election. As the companies have clamped down on misinformation, they have clashed with Republicans and conservatives who have spread lies about the election’s outcome, leading to claims that the tech platforms are censoring them. They (Mark Levin, Maria Bartiromo, and others) directed their followers to other social media apps and news sites that have positioned themselves as alternatives to Facebook and Twitter. The beneficiaries are Parler, a Twitter-like app that describes itself as the world’s “premier free speech social network,” the right-wing media app Newsmax, and other social sites like MeWe and Rumble, which have purposely welcomed conservatives. Read HERE.

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