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Parler has a new home days after it went offline. The social media site was used by some people involved in the Capitol attack. Amazon stopped hosting it, and Google and Apple dropped the app. But it’s now registered with a company that hosts far-right platforms. Steve Inskeep talked with Brian Friedberg at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center, who tracks extremism online.

STEVE INSKEEP, BYLINE: So when big tech companies are cracking down on a site like Parler or some of the even more extreme sites, how are the people on those sites responding?

BRIAN FRIEDBERG: Whenever a large platform takes action against the community, contingency plans are passed around very quickly. So, for example, when it seemed that Twitter was taking action…