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If it hosts the same violent rhetoric that saw Parler forced offline, Trump’s platform may be a short-lived adventure.
Cable providers like Comcast carry Fox News and other channels that feed conspiracy theories and lies into Americans’ homes.
Encrypted messaging services like Telegram provide virtual dark corners where far-right extremists can recruit, organize and plan unhindered.
It’s concerning that tech executives can exercise so much power over who can use their platforms. But the alternative – government intervention – could be much worse.
Apple, Twitter and other tech companies were able to unilaterally shut down much of Trump’s communication infrastructure. That’s a lot of power.
Banning extremists from social media platforms can reduce hate speech, but the deplatforming process has to be handled with care – and it can have unintended consequences.
Fascists, neo-Nazis, anti-Semites and white supremacists have historically been agile adopters of the internet — and they know how to use it to their advantage.
Mimicking other groups and making false claims of responsibility are popular deception tactics used in terrorism.
Trump supporters openly discussed forcing Congress and Vice President Pence to overturn the election results.
Here’s what you need to know about the largely right-wing social media platform creeping into headlines.
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Ontario Research Chair of Digital Governance for Social Justice, York University, Canada
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Professor of Communication and Middle East Studies, Georgia State University
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Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford and Professor of Management and Sociology, University of Michigan
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Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Fordham University
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PhD candidate, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science, Griffith University
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Professor of Global Studies, California State University, San Bernardino
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Reader in Data Security, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Senior Lecturer in Data Science, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Senior Lecturer in Computing and Information Systems, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Research Lead, Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism, Middlebury
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Associate Professor of Journalism, UMass Amherst
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Assistant Professor of Operations and Information Management, University of Connecticut
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Professor, Indigenous Studies and Director of The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures, Macquarie University
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Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Binghamton University, State University of New York
