Google, Apple remove Parler app over posts inciting violence
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Jan. 9 (UPI) Google cut the Parler app from its Play Store listings over posts the company said incites more violence in the aftermath of the U.S. Capitol riot Friday, and on Saturday Apple followed suit.
Screenshots from Parler, which launched in 2018 as an alternative to Twitter, show posts referring to firing squads and calls to bring weapons to President-elect Joe Biden s inauguration, CNBC reported.
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The social media network is popular with supporters of President Donald Trump. We re a community town square, an open town square, with no censorship, Parler CEO John Matze told CNBC in a report last summer. If you can say it on the street of New York, you can say it on Parler.
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