Will Republicans leaving Facebook for Parler make things worse in America?

Asked by JLeslie (65446) November 8th, 2020 from iPhone

I see a lot of my Republican and Libertarian Facebook friends posting on Facebook to check out the Parler app. Parler is another social networking platform, but it isn’t deleting right wing and Alt-right lies. I became curious who owns it and so here is the Wikipedia for it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parler. It’s privately held and founded by John Matze and Jared Thomson. I don’t know anything about them. I encourage you to read the Wikipedia. Near the top Wikipedia says, Parler has a significant user base of Trump supporters, conservatives, and Saudi nationalists. Posts on the website often contain far-right content,[10] antisemitism,[13][discuss] and conspiracy theories.[14]

Just before seeing all the posts telling Republicans to move to Parler, there was a wave of posts by Republicans saying Facebook should be broken up and the monopoly is bad. I told my friends Elizabeth Warren has that as part of her platform, of course they had no idea. Now, I see how clever it is to talk about breaking up Facebook and then bring Parler in afterwards seemingly unrelated, but I think it’s carefully planned.

Will Republicans defecting to Parler in place of Facebook mean the country gets even more divided? Truly no checks on what Republicans are being fed and less conversation between Republicans and Democrats in general to try to understand each other’s point of view.