Some Parler Users Don’t Believe They’ve Been Hacked — They’re Blaming Amazon Instead

’Guaranteed not a hack’

Sarah Emerson
OneZero
Published in
3 min readJan 11, 2021

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Before Parler went offline Monday morning, a hacker reportedly downloaded all the data that users had shared to the platform, including images, video, and deleted posts mentioning the assault on the Capitol last week, Motherboard reported.

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Sarah Emerson
OneZero

Staff writer at OneZero covering social platforms, internet communities, and the spread of misinformation online. Previously: VICE