Interview with Audrey Courty– PhD candidate, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science, Griffith University. Played on RTRFM – Perth Indymedia (27/07/2020)
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There’s been noisy accusations recently – that social media platforms are suppressing users right to free speech.
- Recently Twitter began fact-checking US president Donald Trump’s posts
- Twitch – the live video-streaming service – temporarily banned Trump’s account.
- Facebook lost advertisers over inaction on hateful material and disinformation.
- And online discussion platform – Reddit – removed its largest community of Trump supporters – and hid or deleted hundreds of thousands of posts, and millions of comments going back many years.
Among the so-called stifling of debate – rival platform – Parler is gaining interest for its so-called, self-claimed anti-censorship stance.
Parler claims it is a non-biased free speech driven entity – but is it?
Over recent months – “anti-twitter” – right-leaning users have flocked to the Parler or the alt-Twitter as it has been dubbed – whose main selling point is that it vows to champion free speech.
With me to talk about all this is Audrey Courty – digital media and political communications specialist – and a PhD candidate at the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science – Griffith University
Audrey’s article “Parler: what you need to know about the ‘free speech’ Twitter alternative” was published in the Conversation recently.