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Donald Trump is not known for doing things quietly, but a new social media enterprise led by one of the former president’s closest advisers debuted late Wednesday night. Trump’s former senior adviser, Jason Miller, is behind the site, which is called Gettr. Mediaite reported Wednesday night that he stepped away from…

Apple will allow social media app Parler back onto the iPhone App Store, according to members of Congress who had protested the removal of the controversial service back in January. Parler had back then become a gathering place for supporters of former President Donald Trump, including insurrectionists who attacked…

Parler, the conservative social media platform that went dark last month, said it's back in business — or will be soon — with a new interim CEO, former Tea Party activist Mark Meckler, according to contradictory press reports. The previous CEO, Jim Matze, was fired January 29 by the site that he founded with backing…

John Matze, chief executive of Parler, has been asked to step down, weeks after the conservative social media platform went dark. Apple and Google removed Parler from their app stores after the violent storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Amazon Web Services subsequently declined to host the the platform, citing…

A district court judge Thursday denied Parler's motion for a temporary restraining order against Amazon, which pushed the conservative social media platform offline last week for breaking its terms of service by inciting violence following the siege of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Parler's motion was attached to its…

Social network Parler has returned to the internet, with the company’s founders continuing to promise a full-fledged comeback after the site was banished for its role in the January 6 siege at the U.S. Capitol. Parler went dark earlier this month after Amazon Web Services decided to terminate its hosting agreement…

Defending his company’s takedown of the controversial Parler app from his online store, Apple CEO Tim Cook told Fox newsman Chris Wallace today that he doesn't believe freedom of speech and allegedly provoking violence intersect. Apple, Google, and Amazon Services all took the Parler app offline after the protests…

Amazon has called a lawsuit by Parler "meritless" and the facts "unequivocal" in a case that pits the conservative social media platform against the giant web services provider that declined to support it due to incitement to violence. In a court filing that echoes and expands a statement by Amazon on Monday…

UPDATED with Amazon comment, 4:11 PM. Amazon has responded to a lawsuit filed by Parler earlier today after the tech giant’s web services arm let the upstart social network go dark after it disseminated false election fraud claims and played a role in last Wednesday’s siege on the U.S. Capitol. "There is no merit to…

Parler, the social network known for embracing many of the people banned by Twitter, YouTube and other tech platforms, has officially gone dark after Amazon Web Services stopped supporting the site. The Amazon unplugging follows the removal of the Parler app from the Apple and Google app stores over the weekend. The…

UPDATED with closing prices: Shares of Twitter fell more than 10% in early trading after the social media platform banned President Donald Trump permanently Friday for risk of inciting violence, but had regained some ground by late morning as heat around Internet regulation ratcheted up. The stock closed at $48.97…

Parler CEO John Matze said today that his social media company has been dropped by virtually all of its business alliances after Amazon, Apple and Google ended their agreements with the social media service. "Every vendor from text message services to email providers to our lawyers all ditched us too on the same day,"…