Fact-checked on FB and Twitter, Conservatives switch their apps

New York: Corey Adam, a political comedian from Minneapolis, joined a mass social media switcheroo last week. That was when Adam, 39, a conservative and libertarian, watched Twitter and Facebook add labels to social media posts from President Donald Trump and other Republicans who falsely claimed he had won the election. Many of the labels said the assertions were disputed. And on Twitter, some of Trump’s tweets were hidden completely.

To Adam, the social media companies appeared to be singling out conservative voices. So he decided to shift to Parler, a social networking app that he has used on and off for a year, and to largely ignore those two big platforms, he said.