The CEO of Parler said on Fox News today that the platform may be forced to go out of business because every vendor they use has dropped them in the last few days, Deadline reports, calling it “an assault on everybody.”
John Matze said during a telephone call-in to “Sunday Morning Futures” with Maria Bartiromo that his company has been targeted by a conspiracy designed to bring down Parler. It’s a similar claim from many aggrieved conservatives.
“They all work together to make sure at the same time we would lose access to not only our apps, but they’re actually shutting all of our servers off tonight, off the internet,” Matze said. “They made an attempt to not only kill the app, but to actually destroy the entire company. And it’s not just these three companies. Every vendor from text message services to email providers to our lawyers all ditched us too on the same day.”
Vendors are dropping Parler from their services and stores because the social media site fails to effectively moderate comments posted on its site, providing a platform for hatred, violence and conspiracy theorists. Parler was a platform used by many of those involved in the attempted coup at the Capitol on Wednesday.