After Google, Apple removes Parler from App store

Apple has removed Parler, which has a significant user base of President Donald Trump supporters, from its iPhone App Store on Saturday. company explained that  reason why y removed it is because posts on pro-Trump app related to US Capitol seige last week included violence, which violates Apple’s rules for safe content. On Friday, Google had also removed Parler from its Android app store, Google Play. 

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"We have always supported diverse points of view being represented on App Store, but re is place on our platform for threats of violence and illegal activity. Parler has t taken adequate measures to address proliferation of se threats to people’s safety. We have suspended Parler from App Store until y resolve se issues," read an official statement from Apple. 

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Trump’s Twitter account permanently suspended 

This comes after Twitter permanently suspended US President Donald Trump’s account over risk of ‘incitement of violence’. Twitter said that after assessing tweets in context of a violent storming of Capitol on Wednesday, it determined that Trump’s tweets violated firm’s ‘Glorification of Violence’ policy and constituted immediate removal from platform. 

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Parler had garnered massive popularity online since releasing in 2018. online service bears similarity to microblogging site Twitter and it is particularly popular among right-wing extremists and conservative politicians in United States.

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