Parler CEO and family in hiding after receiving death threats

• Author: JERUSALEM POST STAFF
• Published date: 17 January 2021

Parler is a conservative social media app and is favored by supporters of President Donald Trump and claimed more than 12 million users. Following the Capitol riots, the app was removed from Apple, Amazon and Google servers.

It was revealed that the family went into hiding after a new court filing from Parler's legal team revealed documents obtained by Fox News.

Parler urged a US judge on Thursday to order Amazon.com Inc to restore the company's account, saying Amazon had no evidence the social media platform was used to incite last week's storming of the US Capitol.

At a hearing in Seattle federal court, Parler's lawyer, David Groesbeck, said the company would suffer irreparable harm if forced to close and that keeping it alive served the public interest. He also downplayed Parler's role in the Jan. 6 riot in Washington by supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump.

"Millions of law-abiding Americans have had their voices silenced," Groesbeck told US District Judge Barbara Rothstein. "There is no evidence, other than some anecdotal press references, that Parler was involved in inciting the riots."

Amazon Web Services cut off Parler on Sunday night, saying Parler had shrugged off repeated warnings to remove violent content.

It said that content included calls to assassinate Democratic House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos, Facebook Inc CEO Mark Zuckerberg and members of the...