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John Matze said in a lawsuit he was fired for trying to tone down extremism on the site. Parler was booted from the internet Jan. 11 after Apple suspended purchases of its smartphone app and Amazon Web Services quit hosting it on the internet cloud. Wernick was neither an officer nor owner of Parler but portrayed himself as its operating chief, the lawsuit said. He allegedly enlisted Bongino to “use his media presence ... to promote Parler.” Meckler became the company's chief executive. The document identifies Mercer, daughter of major Trump donor Robert Mercer and a benefactor for the conservative site Breitbart News, as the founding investor in Parler.

NEW YORK – John Matze says he has been fired as CEO of Parler, which was among social media services used to plan the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of then-President Donald Trump. Matze’s announcement Wednesday followed Amazon’s Jan. 11 decision to remove Parler from its web-hosting service over its unwillingness to remove posts that called for the killing, rape and torture of politicians, tech executives and others. Matze linked to a report by Fox Business quoting a memo from him to employees that said he was fired Jan. 29 by the Parler board controlled by conservative donor Rebekah Mercer. “The Parler board controlled by Rebekah Mercer decided to immediately terminate my position as CEO of Parler,” the memo said. Amazon said the suspension was a “last resort” to block Parler from harboring violent plans to disrupt the presidential transition.

HOUSTON – The social media platform Parler has been gaining in popularity since the summer but shot to the top of Android and Apple stores in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election. In a statement issued on Parler, Rebekah Mercer stated her father has no involvement in the social media site. That someone is Parler, a beacon to all who value their liberty, free speech, and personal privacy,” Mercer wrote. You can also find Prager U, OANN and NEWSMAX feeds on the Parler platform. Chair of Communication Studies at Texas Southern University, Dr. Toniesha Taylor said, just like news media, social media sites labeled either conservative or liberal only further fractures the national discussion.