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Social Media Platform Parler Goes Dark As Amazon Suspends Service

“This was a coordinated attack by the tech giants to kill competition in the market place..." — Parler CEO

Joseph Curl
Social Media Platform Parler Goes Dark As Amazon Suspends Service
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Parler, a social media platform that many right-leaning voices have been using since its founding in 2018, went dark early Monday morning as Amazon banned the site from its cloud hosting service.

CEO John Matze told Fox News that the site will try to “get back online as quickly as possible,” but warned that the platform could be down for as long as a week.

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