Article 5DEMJ With Parler down, QAnon moves onto a ‘free speech’ TikTok clone

With Parler down, QAnon moves onto a ‘free speech’ TikTok clone

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Makena Kelly
from The Verge on (#5DEMJ)
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After this month's deadly attack at the Capitol, QAnon has been widely banished from the internet. Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok have all banned Q-related content, and the right's favored platform, Parler, has been forced offline for weeks. But it hasn't all disappeared. A new platform called Clapper, a free-speech" TikTok clone, is becoming a home for QAnon followers.

Clapper launched last July as a Free Speech Short Video" app - it's basically TikTok, but the company promises a lot less moderation. In the six months since its launch, the app has been downloaded over half a million times, with a considerable amount of that growth coming in just the past two weeks.

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