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Members-Only Mystery: Parlor Social Club Is Not The Alt-Right Platform, But WTF Is It?
by Stephanie Maida · January 26, 2021
Parlor, Parlor, Parler,
Par-lay? Will the real social-networking app please stand up?
In recent weeks, the word, whichever way you spell it, has become ubiquitous thanks to a political power struggle and the debate over free speech in the aftermath of the attempted coup at the Capitol. Parler, the social site alternative to Facebook and Twitter, which has become a go-to for conservatives - and might be a Russian PSYOP (lol) - is still not quite back online after getting kicked off its webhosting service for inciting violence. Founded in 2018, it was meant to refer to the French phrase meaning to speak, and thus originally pronounced