Washington:
A new court filing on Friday from the legal group of Parler, an option social media platform favoured by conservatives in the US, has revealed that its CEO John Matze and his family members are now in hiding immediately after facing death threats and safety breaches.
“Matze himself, as the CEO of the company Amazon Web Services (AWS) continues to vilify, has had to leave his home and go into hiding with his family after receiving death threats and invasive personal security breaches,” study the filing.
Parler, a platform extensively embraced by Trump supporters, had earlier launched an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon immediately after the tech giant discontinued its services following final week’s violent riots on the Capitol, Fox News reported.
Amazon filed a response to the lawsuit, claiming it has “no legal basis” and alleged its personnel have been faced with threats and harassment.
The filing from Parler’s lawyers obtained by Fox News acknowledges the disturbing claims created by Amazon but note that the Jeff Bezos-run enterprise is not the 1 getting threats.
“Although AWS’s motion to seal focuses only on its own employees, Parler’s employees have been similarly harassed and threatened… Parler’s CEO, John Matze, Jr., reports in his declaration in support of Parler’s TRO motion that many Parler employees are suffering harassment and hostility, fear for their safety and that of their families, and in some cases have fled their home state to escape persecution,” the filing study.
Earlier this week, Matze told Fox News about the several threats he has received and the measures he would take to guard his family members.
“There is a group called UGNazi that is targeting me,” Matze stated, noting the controversial hacker group has released numerous of his passwords and individual information and facts on the online.
“They published my street address, they threatened to come through my front door,” he added.