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5-MIN READ Parler Squeezed As Trump Seeks New Online Megaphone President Donald Trump has been kicked off of most mainstream social media platforms following his supporters siege on the U.S. Capitol. But it remains to be seen how fast or where if anywhere on the internet he will be able to reach his followers. FOLLOW US ON: BOSTON: President Donald Trump has been kicked off of most mainstream social media platforms following his supporters siege on the U.S. Capitol. But it remains to be see...

A 10-year-old app with a similar name to Parler has reached the top of the app store download charts. Coincidence? We think not.

OFFLINE People desert WhatsApp over fears personal data will now be shared with Facebook after users alerted to new changes Updated: 11 Jan 2021, 17:35 DROVES of people are reportedly ditching WhatsApp for its rival apps after users were told they must share sensitive personal data with Facebook — or have their account frozen until they agree to do so. Millions of users of have jumped ship to Telegram and Signal in the past week amid fears over their privacy, according to data analytics fir...

Parler, the social media app for conservatives, was the leading candidate that was until it became criticized for inciting violence, conspiracy theories.

Signal and Telegram messaging apps are seeing a sudden increase in demand after larger rival WhatsApp's updated terms of service raised eyebrows on social media.

Signal was downloaded more than 100,000 times in app stores of Apple and Google in the last two days after change in WhatsApp policy

Users are surging on small, conservative, social media platforms after President Donald Trump’s ban from the world’s largest social networks, even as those platforms are seeing access throttled by the app marketplaces of tech’s biggest players. The social network, Parler, a network that mimics Twitter, is now the number one app in Apple’s app store […]

WhatsApp alternative Signal tops free app charts on Apples App Store in India It has also topped Apple’s App Store charts in Austria, France, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, and Switzerland. January 09, 2021 / 02:33 PM IST Messaging platform Signal saw a surge in downloads this week after WhatsApp made a modification to its privacy policy. On Saturday morning, Signal tweeted that it had topped the list of free apps on Apple’s App Store in India. Following an endorsement by the world’s r...

Google and Apple told Parler, a social network popular with far-right conservatives, that it must better police its users if it wants a place in their app stores.

This Week in Apps: Social apps react to riots, Parler gets booted, FTC threatens regulation Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 204 billion downloads and $120 billion in global consumer spend in 2019. Consumer spend also hit a record $112 billion across iOS and Android alone. Not including third-party Chinese app stores, iOS ...