- Starboard, the digital-media conglomerate that acquired Parler, a free-speech social-media platform, temporarily took it offline on Friday, according to a company statement by Founder and CEO Ryan Coyne.
- Starboard (formerly Olympic Media) is temporarily shutting down Parler while the company works on a strategy to launch a new and improved version, according to the statement.
- “No reasonable person believes that a Twitter clone just for conservatives is a viable business any more,” Coyne wrote.
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Parler, Conservative Alternative To Twitter, Shut Down For Overhaul
This illustration photo shows the Parler social network app logo on a cell phone screen with a picture of US rapper Kanye West in the background in Los Angeles, October 17, 2022. - Social network Parler announced on October 17 a deal for Kanye West to buy the platform popular with US conservatives, just over a week after the rapper's Twitter and Instagram accounts were restricted over anti-Semitic posts. West -- now known as Ye -- has recently alienated fans and business partners with anti-Semitic comments, interest in racist conspiracy theories and wearing a provocative "White Lives Matter" T-shirt at Paris fashion week. (Photo by Chris DELMAS / AFP) (Photo by CHRIS DELMAS/AFP via Getty Images)
