Alt-tech is a group of websites, social media platforms, and Internet service providers that consider themselves alternatives to more mainstream offerings. In the 2010s and 2020s, some conservatives who were banned from other social media platforms, and their supporters, began to move toward alt-tech platforms.[145][146][147][148] Alt-tech platforms have been criticized by researchers and journalists for providing a cover for far-right userbases and antisemitism.[149][150][151][152][153][154][155]