Evans vows to never be ‘censored again’

Pete Evans has shared a series of posts on a “free speech” alternative social media platform, after vowing to delete his Facebook account and free himself from “being censored”.

Evans announced on Friday he’d be closing his Facebook account, and would be moving to US social media site Parler.

He also revealed he’d be taking his business to a premium subscriber-based model, charging $10 a month or $100 a year for access to meal plans and recipes and content available through his own website.

While Evans has been on the Parler platform since July this year, he had only posted one automated message before Thursday, when he started using the account in earnest.

Since then, his account has shared a string of YouTube and Instagram videos spruiking voter fraud conspiracies to do with the US election, the “take-down of the global cabal” and a video from far-right website Breitbart, mocking President Elect Joe Biden’s stutter.

The former TV chef also shared an image of a Jesus-like figure meditating, with the words: “Success is measured not by what you have, but by what you have given up”.

It came after Evans shared neo-Nazi imagery in a cartoon on social media last week, and was dropped by his long time publishing partner Pan Macmillan Australia, and dumped from an upcoming appearance in reality show I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here!

Read the article by Phoebe Loomes in the Queenland Times.