Parler CEO John Matze hopes his controversial social network will be back online soon even though Amazon has booted the app from its servers.
“I’m sure by the end of the month we’ll be backing up again,” Matze told Fox News Sunday night.
“Every day changes a lot, but now I have confidence,” he added. “We are making significant progress.”
Matze’s outlook on Parler’s future has improved since last week, when she said in a federal lawsuit that her company faced the “prospect of permanent destruction” after Amazon Web Services forced it to darken.
AWS cut off access to Parler’s server last Monday over concerns about the new company’s failure to deal with the graphic threats of violence its users posted before and after the January 6 Capitol riots.
But Parler got his website back online on Sunday after appearing to move his domain name to Epik, a web company that has sparked controversy for hosting extremist content. Parler posted a message on the site promising the “lovers and haters” of the app that he would return soon.
In addition, Matze told Fox that Parler was able to retrieve his Amazon data on Friday, which he called a key step toward rebuilding.
“Despite all that, we haven’t even left an employee,” Matze told Fox. “No, even with the harassment and the threat, no one has stopped smoking … we have such a strong team, that has made them believe more in us.”
Parler has filed a federal lawsuit against Amazon Web Services accusing the tech giant of forcing the app offline because of “political animus.”
Amazon’s move, which followed Apple and Google’s decisions to stop downloading Parler’s mobile app, led other tech giants like Slack and Stripe to leave Parler as a customer, further hampering their operations. , said Matze.
Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday.