Banished QAnon Cultists Migrate To New TikTok Clone

The Verge reports:

After this month’s deadly attack at the Capitol, QAnon has been widely banished from the internet. Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok have all banned Q-related content, and the right’s favored platform, Parler, has been forced offline for weeks.

But it hasn’t all disappeared. A new platform called Clapper, a “free-speech” TikTok clone, is becoming a home for QAnon followers.

Clapper launched last July as a “Free Speech Short Video” app — it’s basically TikTok, but the company promises a lot less moderation. In the six months since its launch, the app has been downloaded over half a million times, with a considerable amount of that growth coming in just the past two weeks.

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A new platform called Clapper, a “free-speech” TikTok clone, is becoming a home for QAnon followers.@kellymakena via @verge https://t.co/sKvGg080e3

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