John Matze, Parler CEO, joins ‘Fox & Friends’ to provide insight into the Big Tech censorship allegations.
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Brian all right
Facebook, CEO Mark Zuckerberg,
reportedly signed off on
changing the platforms
algorithm after the twenty twenty
election, aiming to reduce the
spread of information. Big
mainstream publishes like CNN
the New York Times all posts
from highly engaging partisan
pages, such as Breitbart became
less visible.
Lets get the reaction from an
emerging social media empire.
Ceo John Matze of Parlor
John whats. Your reaction to
this confession.
Well, its just really
interesting, because you know
parlor believes that people
should make the determination
for themselves what they think
is hyperpartisan or they believe
in, and what theyd like to
follow and they can choose on
their own on parlor. What theyd
like to get engaged with.
So for me, this kind of Facebook,
secret internal algorithm thing
is kind of you know Orwellian,
and so we believe in having a
simple, chronological algorithm
that allows people to filter or
out and determine what they want
to view, and I think thats the
best way.
I dont think any of us likes
hyperpartisan. You know
content,
and so when people can decide on
their own, what they believe is
within the norms of society and
what they want to talk about. We
let them choose on their own
Brien Heres, what
Brien Heres? What Facebook said
about it? The I assertions in
this report are based on sources
who have no product decision
making authority and are
advancing their own narrow
impression of how our process
works.
They know it will be detrimental
to their product if they think
theyre turning off people
lets say: seventy four million people who
voted for Donald Trump.
How does parler approach
something like that?
How do you continue to be
somebody that doesnt care, if
youre, right, left or middle?
We do that by not getting
involved and not ranking media
outlets based off some kind of
internal perception.
We dont pretend to be experts
about the news or about you
know, fact, checking
with just offer people a
platform and let everybody else
decide what they want to engage
with,
and I think thats the right way
to do it.
You know stick to what we know,
which is social media,
delivering content that you can
for and doing it in a way thats,
not biased.
Getting into this kind of
business of checking peoples,
news articles for potential bias
is in itself. You know theres
no way for it to be fair.
Brian John, you essentially
said let everybody govern
themselves. So if I go out and
im on Parler, I am, but if
I write something thats proven
to be untrue, youre not going
to monitor me
its up to the other users to
decide whether im worthy of
their time or not
yeah.
Other people will make that
determination
and other people will fact check
you in the comments
its natural right.
People have discussions about
this, hey, I think thats false
or I think thats true or this
has been debunked.
If you look in the comments you
can see, people do that
even on things that they might
be biased, otherwise about
people are fact checking stuff.
So let the community decide
really thats what it comes down
to
you: cant change peoples, minds
through censorship or through
manipulation
up to change it through
discussion and talking about
topics,
Brian so John. What about the
whole crowded fire? I cant
yell fire in a crowded movie
house, even though I have freedom
of speech,
if I say something: unsave Isly,
whether its terroristic or im,
a member of Al Qaeda, I say,
were going to blow up that
building. Is that okay with
parler?
Well, everything has to be
legal, so it has to be legally
protected by the first
amendment.
There are some caveats such as
Unsolis is sited doing we dont
allow are, but otherwise, as long
as its legal in the United
States follows the first
amendment. That is what is
allowed on Parler
Brian right,
and you guys have already now thirty one
million users correct eleven
million users. Correct,
yes, were well over eleven
million accounts and were
still growing every day,
Brian wow,
I imagine more and more people
want to go to parler.
Transcript generated on 2020-11-25.