{"id":21229,"date":"2020-11-12T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=21229"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:04:43","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:04:43","slug":"ad-free-censorship-free-social-sites-mewe-parler-see-surge-in-interest-postelection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/11\/12\/ad-free-censorship-free-social-sites-mewe-parler-see-surge-in-interest-postelection\/","title":{"rendered":"Ad-free, censorship-free social sites MeWe, Parler see surge in interest postelection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"464\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/pexels-pixabay-267350.jpg\" alt=\"Close-up Photography of Smartphone Icons\" class=\"wp-image-21231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/pexels-pixabay-267350.jpg 640w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/pexels-pixabay-267350-276x200.jpg 276w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/pexels-pixabay-267350-193x140.jpg 193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption>(Pexels.com\/CC0)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since the Nov. 3 election, people\u2014particularly President Trump supporters\u2014have been flocking to social media platforms Parler and MeWe, which promise ad-free or uncensored experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MeWe\u2019s promise is \u201cYour private life is not 4Sale: No ads. No Spyware. No BS.\u201d Parler calls itself \u201cthe world\u2019s town square,\u201d inviting participants to \u201cspeak freely and express yourself openly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"caption-attachment-32841\"><strong>Libby Hemphill<\/strong>, associate professor at the School of Information, studies politicians and others to learn how people use social media to organize, discuss and enact social change. <a href=\"https:\/\/news.umich.edu\/ad-free-censorship-free-social-sites-mewe-parler-see-surge-in-interest-postelection\/\">In a faculty Q&amp;A with Michigan News<\/a>, she explains the new platforms, their business models and approaches to freedom of expression, at a time when claims about fake news and election fraud abound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the Nov. 3 election, people\u2014particularly President Trump supporters\u2014have been flocking to social media platforms Parler and MeWe, which promise ad-free or uncensored experiences. MeWe\u2019s promise is \u201cYour private life is not 4Sale: No ads. No Spyware. No BS.\u201d Parler calls itself \u201cthe world\u2019s town square,\u201d inviting participants to \u201cspeak freely and express yourself openly.\u201d Libby Hemphill, associate\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/11\/12\/ad-free-censorship-free-social-sites-mewe-parler-see-surge-in-interest-postelection\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[891,197,65],"class_list":["post-21229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-faculty","tag-media","tag-social"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/pexels-pixabay-267350.jpg",640,464,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/pexels-pixabay-267350-193x140.jpg",193,140,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/pexels-pixabay-267350-276x200.jpg",276,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/pexels-pixabay-267350.jpg",640,464,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/pexels-pixabay-267350.jpg",600,435,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/pexels-pixabay-267350.jpg",640,464,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/pexels-pixabay-267350.jpg",640,464,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/pexels-pixabay-267350-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/pexels-pixabay-267350-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/pexels-pixabay-267350-640x300.jpg",640,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/pexels-pixabay-267350.jpg",640,464,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/pexels-pixabay-267350.jpg",345,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Since the Nov. 3 election, people\u2014particularly President Trump supporters\u2014have been flocking to social media platforms Parler and MeWe, which promise ad-free or uncensored experiences. 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No BS.\u201d Parler calls itself \u201cthe world\u2019s town square,\u201d inviting participants to \u201cspeak freely and express yourself openly.\u201d&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21229"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21234,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21229\/revisions\/21234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}