5 information you do not know about the Parler app used by Trump supporters
In the past hours, the American Google company Google removed the Parler application from its Google Play application, against the background of the riots in the US Capitol building, by a number of supporters of the US President, Donald Trump, and Apple threatened to remove it from its store.
Parler does not apply restrictions on content such as other social media applications that delete content related to hate speech, incitement to violence, and the practice of racism, and the application is the most used by President Trump's supporters, and according to the Mashable technical site, there is a number of information that may not be Most of the users know it about Parler
1- It was created in 2018, and the application's founders describe it as an alternative to Twitter, and it does not remove any content that incites violence, racism or rights violation in general, but rather leaves users with absolute freedom.
2- It is used by supporters of the extreme right and members of the American Republican Party, in addition to a very large number of supporters of President Trump, and they express their political views freely.
3- It witnessed a great turnout after downloading very much in the recent period, as the number of its downloads increased on Google and Apple stores, but the number of downloads increased from 4.5 to 8 million, almost doubling, during the recent US presidential election period, which witnessed the victory of the Democratic candidate. Joe Biden.
4- The activity of users on the Parler application increased twenty-fold most of the election days, especially from supporters of US President Trump, as they found in it a safe haven to express their opinions, which were strongly supported by Facebook and Twitter, and they did not tolerate their deletion when using phrases inciting violence or received a torrent Of warnings about misleading opinions.
5- Its users were able to mobilize in the US elections to elect Trump in the last elections, and they organized themselves through it, as they had boycotted other platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, as well as used by other organizations such as the "Stop theft" group that incites violence and which was banned by Facebook .
