Parler is back, baby.
Prior to its procurement, the site had been struggling.
Pierotti and Rhodes are brother and sister, Wired reports.
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The sites other new owner is a man named Jaco Booyens, whoCNBC reportsis an anti-sex trafficking activist.
Parler has certainly seen its ups and downs.
Originally launched in 2018 as a free speech app, it soon became known as aconservative version of Twitter.
Critics blamed the app for a spike in rightwing radicalization associated with the violent riot.
After the J6 debacle, the site lived on for another two-ish years but saw diminishing financial returns.
In 2022, Kanye Westalmost bought the platformbut thedeal was botchedand Ye took his talents elsewhere.
Starboard said that itplanned to shut down the site until it could be restructuredinto a new kind of platform.
The site subsequently went offline and has been defunct ever since then.
The original idea behind Parler that people gravitated to as a free-speech platform brought successes, Rhodestold Wired.
There was a lot of things that did not allow it to be what it could have been.
Gizmodo reached out to Parler for more details about its revival and will update this story if it responds.
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