(Reuters) – Apple Inc. has threatened to remove the Parler social networking service from the App Store unless the company changes its policy content policy, Parler CEO John Matze told Reuters on Friday.
Parler is a social network to which numerous supporters of President Donald Trump have migrated after being banned from services such as Twitter Inc. In a letter from Apple’s App Store review team to Parler, seen by Reuters, Apple mentions that the service is used to make plans. to descend with weapons to Washington, DC, after a crowd stormed the U.S. Capitol building on Wednesday.
Apple declined to comment.
Reporting by Stephen Nellis; Edited by Leslie Adler