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MeWe, Gab and Rumble. Here are the alternative social networks to Parler

1/11/2021, 3:52:57 PM


Ultra-right offline platform, disabled by Amazon server (ANSA) With Parler offline because Amazon, after the assault on the Capitol, disabled the servers that hosted it, other platforms come to the fore for the American ultra-right. They are MeWe, Gab and Rumble, currently still available online and in the digital stores of Google and Apple. "No advertising, no targeting, no facial recognition and no manipulation of the news flow": that's what MeWe promises,

With Parler offline because Amazon, after the assault on the Capitol, disabled the servers that hosted it, other platforms come to the fore for the American ultra-right.

They are MeWe, Gab and Rumble, currently still available online and in the digital stores of Google and Apple.

"No advertising, no targeting, no facial recognition and no manipulation of the news flow": that's what MeWe promises, which calls itself the social new work of the future and the anti-Facebook because, in its opinion, it keeps an eye on the privacy.

Users can see their connection posts in real time, chat, make live video and voice posts.

The platform created in 2011 has over 5 million users, it was not born for the right, but many users on this political front started signing up after Facebook hit fake vaccine news.

Gab is another site that has become popular with users who want to continue to express themselves freely, with predominantly political intentions.

Founded by Andrew Torba in 2016, it looks similar to Twitter and claims to have 3.7 million monthly visitors worldwide, with thousands of users adding in the last few hours.

Finally there is Rumble.

It is a video-centric social network quite similar to YouTube and TikTok which explains that users "will never be censored for political or scientific content".

It started to have relevance after Biden's election and after Google and YouTube put a stop to some