The “pro-freedom of speech” social network Speak became accessible to its users again after a month of being offline. Despite claiming to be apolitical, the platform ended up being widely adopted by right-wing and far-right communities, gaining well-known conservative users such as Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson. In the wake of the US elections, Parler was flooded with posts from the pro-Trump campaign “Stop Steal”, who said the election had been rigged.
Amazon, Apple and Google suspended their services to Parler after the January 6 storming of the US Capitol, which left five people dead. According to the companies, the platform hosted threats of further violence.
The accounts of former Parler users have returned, but their posts, or “parleys,” on the platform have been deleted. Before the site went offline, an independent researcher managed to save many of the posts, and hackers took advantage of a flaw in the source code to recover footage of the Capitol invasion posted on the social network.
After the ban, Parler CEO John Matze said he was fired in early February. Mark Meckler, founder of the right-wing group Tea Party Patriots, has now taken over as interim CEO, and domain registration has been transferred from Amazon Web Services to Epik. Epik is a web hosting company known as a “safe space” for far-right websites banned from mainstream platforms.
However, Parler remains out of the app stores. Apple and Google; and in a lawsuit against Amazon, a judge denied the request of Parler to have its website reactivated on the platform. In addition, the chairwoman of the House Oversight Committee of the US Congress, Carolyn Maloney, want to investigate who is really behind funding Parler's operations.
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