From my understanding, the way they moderated was to show content to 5 literally random Parler users and let them decide as a group what to do with the content.

From my understanding, the way they moderated was to show content to 5 literally random Parler users and let them decide as a group what to do with the content. This kind of by its own nature drags a platform in a specific direction based on where it started. It had a starting culture of being the alternative platform for conservative voices, and so over time that moderation technique would just push it further in that direction.