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Title: Breaking: Google pulls social media app Parler from the Play Store
Post by: HCK on January 11, 2021, 04:05:21 pm
Breaking: Google pulls social media app Parler from the Play Store

Parler may get taken down from the App Store tomorrow.

What you need to know


Apple may pull social media app Parler from the App Store.
The company says the app failed to moderate content that led to the attack on the U.S. Capitol.


Update, January 8 (8:00 pm ET): Google has pulled the Parler app from the Play Store.

As reported by Buzzfeed News, Apple has given Parler, the social media network popular among conservatives, a 24-hour period to address a number of complaints or face removal of the app from the App Store.

Buzzfeed got its hands on an email sent to Parler this morning. In the email, Apple's App Review Board says that it has received complaints that the app features "objectionable content" and that the app was "was used to plan, coordinate, and facilitate the illegal activities in Washington D.C."


  "We have received numerous complaints regarding objectionable content in your Parler service, accusations that the Parler app was used to plan, coordinate, and facilit...

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