At least fourteen Tory MPs in the UK Parliament joined Parler, the controversial social media platform now fighting for its existence, before it went offline.
This included many prominent members of the Tory caucus, as well as several ministers and one cabinet minister.
According to the Guardian, Milo Conerford, the Senior Policy Manager at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), said in an interview:
"By positioning themselves as a safe haven for free speech and an alternative to the alleged 'liberal bias' of social media giants such as Facebook and Twitter, platforms like Parler attracted a motley crew of ultra-libertarians, violent extremists and conspiracy theorists, as well as more mainstream 'free speech fundamentalists.'"
At least nine of the 14 MPs who joined Parler did so recently, before the social media app shut down when it was kicked off of Amazon's hosting servers. The MP's were supposedly inspired by the way US President Donald Trump was treated on Twitter and on other social media platforms. It should be noted that most of the accounts are currently completely inactive and there is no indication of any innapropriate material being posted by any of the MP's.
Parler itself is currently in limbo; it has supposedly found a company who will host the platform on its servers, but as of the time of this writing, on Parler's home page is the following message:
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