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Parler CEO John Matze Says He’s Been Canned by the Company’s Board
In an internal memo to staffers on Wednesday, Parler CEO John Matze announced that he has been effectively terminated by the company’s board following public outcry over the platform’s role in inciting a deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol.
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FBI Says Far-Right Militia Used Facebook Messenger to Coordinate Attack on Capitol Building
Parler, a veritable breeding ground of far-right extremists, has arguably come under the most fire for its part in the Capitol riots, but let’s not forget that the internet is a big place, and violent radicalisation on the scale we saw on Jan. 6 doesn’t develop in a bubble. Case in point: The Federal Bureau…
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Parler’s Back from the Dead With a Domain Registered to Epik, Home to Gab and Daily Stormer
Parler came back online Sunday with a defiant message to the social network’s “lovers and haters.” Its new host appears to be Epik, a domain name registrar that has harbored other deplatformed cesspools like Gab, the Daily Stormer, and 8kun predecessor’s 8chan, thus cementing Parler, the self-proclaimed “world’s premier free speech platform,” in the online…