Alt-Tech and the Great Secession

Gab, Parler and now Trump’s Truth Social may never rival Big Tech, but the movement they’re fostering is dangerous

Micah Sifry
GEN
Published in
5 min readFeb 22, 2022

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If you know anything about the history of alt-tech, you may have greeted yesterday’s launch of Donald Trump’s Truth Social, a Twitter alternative, with a giant yawn. Who cares if there’s one more social network trying…

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Micah Sifry
GEN
Writer for

Co-founder Civic Hall. Publisher of The Connector newsletter (theconnector.substack.com)