Apple, Amazon Remove Parler After Use in U.S. Capitol Riots
- Amazon Web Services plans to stop hosting Parler Sunday
- Parler says services may be affected by up to a week
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Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. are removing Parler from their services, part of a growing backlash after the social media network was among those used to organize Wednesday’s riots at the Capitol.
Apple dropped Parler from its App Store, while Amazon’s cloud unit decided to stop hosting the social media company starting Sunday night. They joined Alphabet Inc.’s Google, which removed the app from its Google Play store on Friday, saying that it created an “ongoing and urgent public safety threat.”