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Photo: OLIVIER DOULIERY / Contributor (Getty Images) In an internal memo to staffers on Wednesday, Parler CEO John Matze announced that he has been effectively terminated by the company’s board following public outcry over the platform’s role in inciting a deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol. Advertisement “On January 29, 2021, the Parler board controlled by Rebekah Mercer decided to immediately terminate my position as CEO of Parler. I did not participate in this decision,” Matze wrote. “I understand that those who now control the company have made some communications to employees and...

Photo: Michael B. Thomas (Getty Images) From the flaming ashes of the GameStop stock clusterfuck, the WallStreetBets Discord group returns from the dead. Advertisement It’s been a rough morning for anyone trying to get rich by pouring money into garbage stocks. Over the last week or so, we’ve seen a remarkable run on stocks like GameStop, AMC, and BlackBerry that has sent their market caps soaring. But a crackdown by Robinhood and other investment apps for retail investors has led to those stonks plummetting on Thursday. There’s still a little hope, though. Discord has decided to allow ...

Parler, a veritable breeding ground of far-right extremists, has arguably come under the most fire for its part in the Capitol riots, but let’s not forget that the internet is a big place, and violent radicalization on the scale we saw on Jan. 6 doesn’t develop in a bubble. Case in point: The Federal Bureau of Investigation said this week that a group of far-right militia members used Facebook Messenger to coordinate their actions during the siege on the Capitol Building.

House Oversight Committee Asks FBI to Investigate Parler Photo: Olivier Douliery (Getty Images) The chairwoman of the House Oversight Committee has asked the FBI to investigate Parler, the largely unmoderated conservative social media hellhole implicated as one of the sites involved in organizing the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol. Advertisement In a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) asked the agency to examine whether Parler was “a potential facilitator of planning and incitement related to the violence,” as well as gather evidence that may have been po...

Parler's Back from the Dead With a Domain Registered to Epik, Home to Gab and Daily Stormer Photo: Hollie Adams (Getty Images) Parler came back online Sunday with a defiant message to the social network’s “lovers and haters.” Its new host appears to be Epik, a domain name registrar that has harbored other deplatformed cesspools like Gab, the Daily Stormer, and 8kun predecessor’s 8chan, thus cementing Parler, the self-proclaimed “world’s premier free speech platform,” in the online shit hole hall of fame. Advertisement Amazon Web Services gave Parler the boot on Jan. 10 in the w...