Why keeping trump’s social media platform online will be difficult
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Running parallel to privacy concerns, the security of Trump’s platform will also come under scrutiny after its release. The hacking of Twitter in 2020 proved that even the largest social
media firms have security deficiencies. Meanwhile, the hacking of Gab – a “free speech” platform similar to Parler – by a single “hacktivist” earlier this year showed how hacks motivated by
political views could also pose a threat to Trump’s platform. As well as hackers, then, so-called “trolls” could set up profiles of their own to disrupt activity on Trump’s platform. A
number of Trump’s supporters were displaced from mainstream social media platforms after being linked with violent rhetoric, including the sharing of white supremacist, racist and fascist
tropes. If those same views are shared on Trump’s platform, his latest social media adventure could quickly descend into a toxic farce – prompting tech companies like Apple, Google and
Amazon to intervene once again to stop the spread of violent speech online. _(This is an opinion piece and the views expressed above are the author’s own. The Quint neither endorses nor is
responsible for them. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article __here__.)_