Google Play store suspends Parler as Apple threatens to follow suit within hours

Apple has warned right-wing social media platform Parler to produce and implement a content moderation plan or risk its removal from the App Store, following incitement of violence that has spread across the platform in the wake of an insurrection attempts at the US Capitol.

Google has also suspended Parler from its Play Store “in light of this ongoing and urgent public safety threat.”

In an email to Parler executives, Apple wrote: "We have received numerous complaints regarding objectionable content in your Parler service, accusations that the Parler app was used to plan, coordinate, and facilitate the illegal activities" in Washington DC.

“The app also appears to continue to be used to plan and facilitate yet further illegal and dangerous activities," the email said.