Parler

John Matze, a software engineer who was Parler's co-founder and chief executive officer, said earlier this month that Ms. Mercer effectively fired him because of a disagreement over running the website. Ms. Mercer hired Mark Meckler, a…

John Matze, the executive director of the competitive social media platform Parler, said Wednesday he was fired last week.Matze, 27, who co-founded the website in 2018, said in an interview that he was not given an explanation for the…

Separately, Parler user data was published online in a searchable database on the ArchiveTeam.org website by a single researcher using the Twitter alias "@donk_enby".The researcher began archiving all Parler posts on January 6, the date of…

Parler slowly grew until early 2020 when Twitter began labeling Mr. Trump's tweets as inaccurate and some of his supporters joined Parler in protest. Parler grew even faster after the November election when Facebook and Twitter made false…

Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, pictured on September 13, 2018.Bloomberg | Getty ImagesA group of Amazon employees are calling on the company to stop providing cloud services to Parler, a social media app popular with Trump…

Other platforms hosting posts from right-wing influencers, including CloutHub and MyMilitia - a forum for militia groups - recently updated their terms of service to ban threats of violence.DLive has been pressured by Tipalti, a payment…

In the eyes of many of Mr. Trump's followers, Parler was a safe haven from so-called big tech censorship - a place where they could propose conspiracy theories, make threats, and even plan violent rallies without worrying about a ban . It…