According to data presented by the Atlas VPN team, emails impersonating LinkedIn were the most clicked on social media phishing attacks, with a 47% open rate in the third quarter of this year.

The numbers are based on research by KnowBe4, which examined tens of thousands of email subject lines from simulated phishing tests in Q3 2020 based on real phishing attack data.

Top-clicked social media phishing emails (2020 Q3)
LinkedIn impersonating emails
“Someone has sent you a DirectMessage on Twitter!”
“Your friend tagged you in photos onFacebook”
“New voice message at 1:23AM”
“Login Alert for Chrome on MotorolaMoto X”
“Someone may have accessed your account”
“You have a new WhatsApp message”

Parler, founded in 2018, touts itself as “the world’s premier free speech platform.” On Saturday, CEO and co-founder John Matze said one of the privately owned company’s early investors is Rebekah Mercer, who along with her father, hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer, has been a backer of President Trump and is also a major donor to conservative causes, including Breitbart News and former White House strategist Steve Bannon.

“John and I started Parler to provide a neutral platform for free speech,” Rebekah Mercer wrote on Parler on Saturday. She went on to condemn “the ever increasing tyranny and hubris of our tech overlords.”

The company puts few restrictions on what users can post. That has made it attractive to high-profile conservatives who claim Facebook and Twitter are censoring them.  Once you start content curation and you start fact-checking, you’re introducing bias.

Thanks to all the attention in recent days, Parler is now one of the most downloaded apps on Apple and Android smartphones. It has hit 10 million members — more than double the 4.5 million it had last week, according to Jeffrey Wernick, the company’s chief operating officer.

I would only warn you that if you don’t know how Twitter works, you won’t get Parler. And Parler right now is ONLY about politics, so if you don’t enjoy talking about that, then it’s a waste to go on Parler.  Parler also doesn’t try to create interaction among users as much as get users to follow political figures.

Also,  the politically-driven antics cost Facebook and Twitter users and ad revenue.  We shall see what the numbers are at the end of the 4th Quarter.