Parler CEO John Matze expects his controversial social network to be online again soon, despite Amazon launching the app from its servers.
“I am confident that we will help again by the end of the month,” Matze told Fox News on Sunday night.
“Every day it changes wildly, but I now feel confident,” he added. “We are making significant progress.”
Matze’s prospects for Parler’s future have improved since last week when he told a federal court that his company had the “prospect of permanent destruction” after Amazon Web Services forced it to go dark.
AWS cut off Parler’s server access last Monday due to concerns over the failure to police the graphic threats of violence posted by users before and after the January 6 riots.
But Parler got his website back online on Sunday after apparently transferring his domain name to Epik, a web business that has sparked controversy over the presentation of extremist content. Parler posted a message on the website in which he promised that the app ‘lovers and haters’ that it will be back soon.
In addition, Matze told Fox that Parler was able to retrieve his data from Amazon on Friday, which he called an important step toward rebuilding.
“Despite all this, we did not even stop one employee,” Matze told Fox. “No one, even if they were harassed and threatened, no one stopped … we have such a strong team, it just made them believe in us more.”
Parler has filed a federal lawsuit against Amazon Web Services, accusing the technology giant of forcing the app offline for “political animus”.
Amazon’s move – which followed Apple and Google’s decisions to stop downloading Parler’s mobile app – has led to other tech giants such as Slack and Stripe dropping Parler as a customer, further hampering its operations, said Matze.
Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.