Parler CEO Goes Into Hiding Blaming Amazon Flak, Death Threats
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The chief executive officer of Parler LLC says he’s gone into hiding after receiving death threats.
John Matze Jr.’s social media platform was briefly the new home to conservative supporters of Donald Trump who flocked to it after Twitter banned the president. But Parler went dark Sunday after Apple Inc. and Google removed it from their their app stores and Amazon.com Inc. pulled the plug on its web-hosting service, citing violent content that the e-commerce giant says played into the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.