U.S. media “Gateway Pundit” reported on February 4 that Dan Bongino, one of the owners of Parler, broke the inside story of Parler CEO John Matze’s firing, and that Matze was lying about the reasons for his departure. Bongia hopes that all people will understand the truth and not believe the media hype.
Fired Para CEO John Matze claimed he was fired for trying to ban conspiracy theories from the site by Anonymous Q (QAnon). Bongiorno, one of the investors, said Martz was lying.
Last Friday (Jan. 29), Bongiorno and conservative super-donor Rebekah Mercer, among other investors, removed fellow Para founder Martz from the CEO position, and this week Martz made the matter public. In an interview with The New York Times on Wednesday (Feb. 3), Mazzie claimed that he had urged Mercer to get Para to do more to restrain domestic terrorists, white supremacists and supporters of Anonymous Q.
Maz bluntly condemned Mercer in the leaked memo, writing, “Over the past several months, I have been met with resistance to the product’s vision, my strong belief in free speech and my views on how Para’s website should be managed. “
But in a statement to the Daily Mail, Bongiorno, one of Para’s investors, slammed Maz’s statement as “inaccurate and misleading. In a live video on Facebook on Wednesday night, Bongiorno said that Martz’s claims were untrue.
Bongino said, “Para’s investors and Mazzie don’t see eye to eye. The investors have a very clear vision that this site will be a platform for free speech or nothing will be accomplished.” He said, “The company’s vision of being a platform for free speech is one that I share with the other two investors, and we are strongly committed to that goal.”
He said, “If we had groveled and followed all the ridiculous Apple edicts and become the right hand of Twitter speech censorship, we could have been back online in a week.”
Bongino added, “We also don’t want to be letting spam appear on our site, and we took the appropriate steps to do that, but we are a free speech station.”
Bongiorno also insisted that he and other investors had warned Mazz on several occasions about the stability of the product. Bongino also hinted on air that “bad decisions” under Martz’s leadership led to Para’s website being taken offline, but she did not provide more details. He said, “We need to take it head on, there have been some bad decisions made in the past that have led to us being beaten by Amazon and other companies.”
Bongiorno told the Daily Mail that “Para is more than just a social media platform; it is a beacon of today’s fight for free speech and for open and productive dialogue.”
Bongiorno added, “We will continue with the relaunch and hope to welcome everyone back soon.”
Para is a social media platform founded in 2018 by Mercer, Maz, and Maz’s college friend Jared Thomson. According to Parra, the total number of users served by Parra reached 15 million before it was taken offline by the tech giant.
Mercer, who has been blamed for the firing of Maz, is the daughter of Robert Mercer, a hedge fund manager and co-founder of the now-defunct political data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica.
Rebekah Mercer, 47, is a prominent conservative donor and activist, a former stock trader and married to a Morgan Stanley executive. She is now listed as “retired” or “homemaker” in the financial statements. Others have given her a different title: “First Lady of the Alt-Right. Her father, Robert, is co-CEO of the hedge fund Renaissance Technologies and is estimated by Bloomberg to be worth at least $1 billion.
According to a report published by Quartz in December 2017, the Mercer Family spent money on Breitbart, Cambridge Analytica, a machine gun company and a horse farm in Florida.
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