Are those Trumps Twitter followers?
Or are they coming from Parlor?
Serious questions. Not trying to troll.
Serious questions. Not trying to troll.
I also really hope it's not intelligence agencies rushing to make new accounts to move their disinformation campaigns to new platforms.
https://www.macrumors.com/2021/01/06/whatsapp-privacy-policy...
Jan 6 was not a good day to announce such a policy shift. It got drowned out by world (well, US) events.
As for the surge in encrypted messaging, yes, a lot of this is conservatives no longer willing to use Facebook and Twitter out of anger or fear. Of my conservative friends, I would say that at least half have moved to platforms like Wickr and Signal in the last week. They are using it to replace private Facebook Messenger chats.
All of my family and most of my in-laws as well as most of my friends here in Norway from outside work uses it since long time ago, but just the last few days two more Norwegians and one Pakistani friend of mine joined.
Just turns our the right does a lot more of that. Reality is hard, sometimes.