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Fergus Ryan, Jacob Mchangama

Why Are Moscow and Beijing Happy to Host the U.S. Far-Right Online?

A Trump supporter with a "White Pride" tattoo a faces counterprotesters during a pro-Trump rally in Tujunga, a neighborhood of Los Angeles, on Aug. 21, 2020. Kyle Grillot/AFP via Getty Images

The founder of neo-Nazi rag the Daily Stormer had some advice for the people who ran Parler, after the app was purged from the internet last week: Ask China or Russia for help.

Parler, which had become a refuge for those supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump and conspiracy theorists deemed too extreme for Twitter and Facebook, became inaccessible after it was banned from Google and Apple’s app stores and then by Amazon’s hosting services for failing to curb violent and threatening content on its platform during the insurrectionist riots at the U.S. Capitol earlier this month.

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