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Parler Voluntarily Dismisses Federal Suit Against Amazon Web Services, Files New State Court Suit lawstreetmedia.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lawstreetmedia.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Two crossed lines that form an X . It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification. Parler CEO John Matze and former president Donald Trump, who allegedly considered making an account on the platform. Fox News, Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images
Parler registered about 7,029 new users per minute during the November election, according to Stanford researchers.
The researchers on Thursday published their findings about Parler s first 13 million users.
Parler had about 802 moderators, according to the report.
Growth on Parler, an alternative social networking app, spiked during November s US presidential election, with the site adding about 7,029 new users per minute, according to a study from Stanford University.
Thu, Jan 21st 2021 3:51pm
Mike Masnick
As was totally expected, US district court judge, Barbara Jacobs Rothstein, has handily rejected Parler s motion to force Amazon to turn Parler s digital lights back on. The order is pretty short and sweet, basically saying that Parler hasn t even remotely shown a likelihood of success in the case that would lead to having the court order Amazon to take the social media site back.
On the antitrust claims, the judge points out that these appear to be a figment of Parler s imagination:
At this stage in the proceedings, Parler has failed to demonstrate that it is likely to succeed on the merits of its Sherman Act claim. While Parler has not yet had an opportunity to conduct discovery, the evidence it has submitted in support of the claim is both dwindlingly slight, and disputed by AWS. Importantly, Parler has submitted no evidence that AWS and Twitter acted together intentionally or even at all in restraint of trade..