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by Bucephalus355 1972 days ago
The most incredible thing about all this is that Parler was built on top of ... WordPress.

Robert Mercer put $10,000,000 into Parler, and they build out a WordPress app. I don't mean to be harsh, and I actually have a special affection for PHP (the first programming language I studied), but that is engineering malpractice.

Also FYI per the New Yorker story in 2018, Robert Mercer is the largest private owner of machine guns in the US. He runs them through the armory Centre Firearms [1].

[1] - https://CentreFirearms.com
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flagrant 1971 days ago
I've seen no reliable sources make the claim that Parler was built on WordPress. To the best of my knowledge this stems from a misunderstanding, and Parler had a WordPress blog which was compromised, but that is a completely separate system to the main social media site, which is not WordPress.
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shishy 1972 days ago
What does the last bit have to do with the discussion?
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