Google, Apple, and Amazon removed the Parler app from their platforms.
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The Michael Berry ShowSep 23, 2026
Multiple tier1 sources confirm that Apple and Google removed the Parler app from their app stores in January 2021, and that Amazon removed Parler from its web-hosting service, which took the platform offline.
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… You'd love it. You could play Pokemon Go. You and Donnie Junior can hunt Pikachus together. And when no one else wants you, don't forget, there's always your old friend, the Domino's Pizza Tracker. Not only did Trump get banned from Twitter, Google, Apple, and Amazon removed the Parlor app from their platforms. Parlor is where all the right-wingers gather to post Q and A nonsense and misspell the word parlor. And no one was more upset about Parlor going away than a sneaky little congressman named Devin. But it's more than just the financial aspect to that. …
The Michael Berry Show · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. AP reports that Google and Apple removed Parler's app from their online stores, following Amazon's decision to remove Parler from its web-hosting service.[1]
Supports. Reuters/BBC report that Apple suspended Parler from its App Store and Google removed the app from its Play Store, with Amazon removing Parler from its web-hosting service in January 2021.[2][4]
Supports. CNN reports that Amazon, Apple and Google 'have all booted it from their platforms' within about 24 hours, with Amazon's action shutting down Parler's website and app until a new host was found.[5]
Supports. PolitiFact and NPR confirm the Apple and Google app-store removals and Amazon's cutoff of cloud services to Parler.[3][6]
Context. Amazon's action was a removal from web hosting, not from an app store, so 'removed from their platforms' is a fair description of its effect but not literally the same act as Apple's and Google's removals. Parler returned to Apple's App Store in May 2021.[2][5]
Sources
6 sources: 3 fact-checkers, 1 tier 1, 2 tier 2
- 1CEO of social media app Parler says board fired him - AP Newsapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 2Parler returns to Apple's App Store, names new CEOreuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports, context
- 3GOP still has ways to communicate, despite Nunes’ claimpolitifact.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 4Parler: Amazon to remove site from web hosting servicebbc.com · tier 1 · cited for: supports
- 5Parler has now been booted by Amazon, Apple and Google | CNN Businesscnn.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports, context
- 6Amazon And Apple Drop Parlernpr.org · tier 2 · cited for: supports
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