What is Parler? How is social media regulated?

On November 7 Philadelphia time, at the exact moment the US election was called for Joe Biden, President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani was giving a press conference at the Four Seasons – the landscaping store, not the luxury hotel.

He had his own version of history too: Trump had won, not Biden. And, on fringe corners of the internet, this alternative reality has been playing out ever since, fuelled by baseless and now thoroughly…