A House of Representatives committee is seeking information from the social media platform Parler, including whether former President Donald Trump was offered an ownership stake. House Oversight Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) on Monday asked Parler COO Jeffrey Wernick for all documents and communications referring or relating to a reported proposal to provide Trump with a…
Ex-Parler CEO Says He Didn’t Want Deal With Trump
Former Parler CEO John Matze said in a new interview that he didn’t want to work directly with former President Donald Trump while still with the social media company. “I didn’t like the idea of working with Trump, because he might have bullied people inside the company to do what he wanted,” Matze said on…
Parler Co-Owner: Site Could Be Back Up on Feb. 8
Things are looking good for a re-platform of the social media website Parler, a co-owner said late Thursday. “We’re shooting for Monday,” co-owner Dan Bongino said on Fox News’s “Hannity.” “Monday looks good. Fingers crossed.” Bongino didn’t provide any more information. Parler, a competitor to Twitter, was deplatformed by Amazon Web Services last month. Amazon…
Parler CEO John Matze Announces His Termination
Parler CEO John Matze announced late Wednesday that he has been terminated as the company’s CEO. Matze said that the Parler board on Jan. 29 decided to terminate his position, adding that he did not participate in the decision. The Parler board is controlled by Rebekah Mercer, the daughter of hedge-fund billionaire Robert Mercer. Matze…
American Elites Seek to Rig the Game
Commentary In the aftermath of the disgraceful Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, the American ruling class has flexed its muscles like never before. Big Tech oligarchs moved in unison to kneecap upstart Parler, a would-be Twitter competitor, and ban former President Donald Trump and scores of other conservatives. Simon & Schuster, one of…
Our Tech Minders and the Future of Public Discourse
Commentary Both Apple and Google have deplatformed Parler, a social media app widely used as an alternative channel for group communication. Amazon soon joined this effort by denying access to cloud services hosting Parler content. Other service providers apparently followed suit, constricting and perhaps exterminating Parler from among the options available to consumers. Parler was…
House Oversight Republicans Say FBI’s Capitol Riot Probe Into Parler Should Include Facebook and Twitter
Republicans on the House Oversight Committee criticized its chairwoman’s calls for an FBI investigation into the role the social media platform Parler may have played in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot as “blatantly and overtly partisan,” arguing that for any such probe to be fair, it should also include Facebook and Twitter. Reps. James Comer…
House Oversight Republicans Say FBI’s Capitol Riot Probe Into Parler Should Include Facebook, Twitter
Republicans on the House Oversight Committee criticized calls by the panel’s chairwoman for an FBI investigation into the role the social media platform Parler may have played in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot as “blatantly and overtly partisan,” arguing that for any such probe to be fair, it should also include Facebook and Twitter. Reps….
Heather Higgins: Silencing People and Forcing Them to ‘Accept Guilt’ Not the Way to Unity
Heather Higgins, chairwoman of the Independent Women’s Forum, suggested that the left’s current narrative of “unity” is coming across to the other side as being asked to “accept guilt” and “shut up.” “There’s a lot of ‘we need to unify,’” Higgins told Jan Jekielek, host of The Epoch Times’ American Thought Leaders program on Jan….
Parler Decries ‘Reprehensible’ Attack on CEO’s Family, Wife After House Oversight’s FBI Demand
Parler, a social media company favored by conservatives, has asserted that CEO John Matze’s family and wife have been smeared after the House Oversight Committee sent a letter to the FBI requesting an investigation. “Over the past few weeks, Parler has been repeatedly mischaracterized and treated unjustly. But the recent personal attacks on our CEO John,…
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