While President Trump’s Twitter ban is the major headline in social media news, another platform has recently come under fire for its role in last week’s Capitol riot. Parler, the social media app branded as the conservative alternative to Facebook and Twitter, has just been removed from Apple, Google, and Amazon platforms.
Today on “What’s the Word” Adam Schuster explains how Parler became so popular so quickly, and how the dangers it’s presented fit within the larger problems of social media in the Trump era.
