Parler, the social media platform forced offline by Amazon following the deadly January 6 riot at the Capitol, could be back up and running early next week, co-owner Dan Bongino told “Hannity” on Thursday.
“We’re shooting for Monday,” said Bongino, who is also a contributor to Fox News. Monday looks good. Fingers crossed. ‘
Bongino joined host Sean Hannity a day after Fox News received a memo to employees from ex-CEO John Matze explaining why he was fired by the company’s board of directors last week.
Matze claimed he had met “constant resistance” to his original vision for Parler following Amazon Web Services’ decision to shut down the platform for failing to moderate “blatant content” related to the Capitol riot.
BONGINO RETURNS TO THE CLAIMS OF THE OUSTED PARLER CEO
“For example, I advocated greater product stability and, in my opinion, a more effective approach to content moderation,” wrote Matze.
Bongino disputed Matze’s claims in a Facebook video published earlier Wednesday.
“I have no personal complaint at all against John, the CEO, I want to be crystal clear,” he said, “but John decided to make this public, not us. We treated it like gentlemen.
“We were basically the ones who fought to get Parler back up. There were really bad decisions made by people inside, and listen, this isn’t us airing dirty laundry. This protects a company that is absolutely committed to freedom. of speech, which I put the last year of my life into. Do you really believe that someone else was on the side of freedom of speech? “
“The relationship with Parler and the CEO did not work out because the CEO’s vision was not ours,” Bongino added later in the video. Is that clear to everyone? Our vision was crystal clear. We had to get up and fight back, there have been some terrible decisions made in the past, which resulted in our being knocked down by Amazon and others. “
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A Parler insider told Fox News Thursday that the delay was caused by new branding and changes taking place within the company for the sake of stability.
Parler was widely embraced by Trump supporters and saw a spike in users following the permanent suspension of the now-former president by Twitter last month.
Fox News’ Brian Flood contributed to this report