Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
According to Ico Maly, Parler is one of the first metapolitical platforms because it succeeded in being a platform that could be used by a broader right-wing audience. As such, it managed to become a political tool that could function for people beyond the far-right. Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter — now "X" — is something else entirely. Changes in moderation policies, "free speech" discourse, and X's infrastructure demonstrate how Twitter's transformation into X ensured that far-right ideologies could reach into the mainstream through a platform under far-right control.
According to Ico Maly, Parler is one of the first metapolitical platforms because it succeeded in being a platform that could be used by a broader right-wing audience. As such, it managed to become a political tool that could function for people beyond the far-right. Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter — now "X" — is something else entirely. Changes in moderation policies, "free speech" discourse, and X's infrastructure demonstrate how Twitter's transformation into X ensured that far-right ideologies could reach into the mainstream through a platform under far-right control.
