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Apple Will Allow Parler Back In App Store By Laura StotlerApril 23, 2021 Apple has announced it will reinstate conservative social media platform Parler in its App Store after a ban of several months. The move was announced this week in a letter to Senator Mike Lee and Representative Ken Buck, which was made public. Apple was one of a number of companies, including Google and Amazon, that banned Parler after the January Capitol riot, which resulted in five deaths and hundreds of arrests. The Parler platform had been used by far-right members to call for violence and organize the attack on the Capitol.
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Social network for web outcasts can be downloaded again from next week for iThings, we're told Katyanna Quach Tue 20 Apr 2021 // 00:24 UTC Share Copy Parler is set to return to Apple's App Store next week after the social network agreed to moderate hate speech on its platform. In a letter [PDF] to Congress on Monday, Apple’s senior director of government affairs in the Americas, Tim Powderly, confirmed a duly updated version of Parler will be allowed into the iGiant's software souk. The decision comes months after the self-described “free speech social network” was deplatformed by Big Tech over concerns it was used by far-right netizens to spread hate speech and whip up violence, particularly around the January 6 insurrection attempt at the US Capitol.
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Rafael Henrique / SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Originally published on April 20, 2021 4:44 pm Months after dropping Parler from its app store, Apple has agreed to reinstate the platform if it makes certain updates to its content moderation practices, according to a letter it sent to two Republican lawmakers. Parler says it will relaunch next week with "several new safeguards" in place. Apple was one of several companies to limit access to Parler — which is popular with far-right activists and describes itself as "the world's premiere free speech platform" — after the Capitol riots in January, citing its failure to tamp down on calls for violence and illegal activity.