Leaked Parler Data Points to Users at Police Stations, U.S. Military Bases

[LiberalArkie]

Location data gleaned from thousands of videos posted on the social network Parler and extracted in the days before Amazon restricted access to app this week, reveal its users included police officers around the U.S. and service members stationed on bases at home and abroad.

The presence on Parler of active military and police raises concerns, experts said, about their potential exposure to far-right conspiracy theories and extremist ideologies enabled by the platform’s practically nonexistent moderation and its stated openness to hate speech. Military officials have long considered infiltration and recruitment by white supremacist groups a threat. Groups that endorsed a wide range of racist beliefs appear to have been operating openly on Parler, the experts said, with the de facto permission of its owners. The FBI has likewise raised concerns over law enforcement agents adopting radical views and being recruited—viewing their access to secured buildings, elected officials, and other VIPs as a singular threat.

On Monday, Amazon moved to expel Parler from its servers after finding the company in breach of contract for failing to identify and remove posts by users that called for the “rape, torture, and assassination” of elected officials, police officers, and public school teachers, according to a recent court filing. The suspension followed the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol building instigated in part by President Trump during a speech laden with false accusations of electoral fraud, in which he directed thousands of his most die-hard supporters toward the building.

Parler is among the apps that attendees used to stage the event. While others, including Facebook, are viewed as responsible for not taking more aggressive action against extremist rhetoric on their platforms, Parler’s policies openly condoned the racist rhetoric espoused by many of the rioters—and the conspiracy theories that fueled their attack that ended in five deaths. Pulling Parler’s plug was a “last resort,” Amazon said, to prevent further access to such content, including what it called fresh plans for violence “to disrupt the impending Presidential transition.”

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https://gizmodo.com/leaked-parler-data-points-to-users-at-police-stations-1846059897

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. In 5 days, the legal ground will do a seismic shift.

Insurrectionist LEO's are why Black Lives Matter came into existence.

[bigendian]

3. True. NT

[OAITW r.2.0]

4. Seems like that has to change. nt