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What Next - TBD | Where the Far Right Is Meeting Now

What Next - TBD | Where the Far Right Is Meeting Now

Extreme groups have been banned from mainstream social media platforms. Is that a good thing?

Slate Daily Feed · Slate

January 15, 202116m 35s

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Show Notes

After Facebook and Twitter banned thousands of accounts in the wake of the Capitol riots, fringe groups are flocking to platforms like Signal and Telegram. With the inauguration just days away, and government officials warning of violence, QAnon believers and Stop the Steal protesters are now communicating in encrypted spaces. What, if anything, is being planned? 


Guest: 

Will Sommer, politics reporter at the Daily Beast


Host

Lizzie O’Leary

 


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