Trump’s Parler deal reportedly fell through over app’s refusal to ban critics
NY Post
Plans to let former President Donald Trump become an active user of Parler got scuttled earlier this year when the social network refused to ban his critics from its platform, according to a report.
While Trump was still in office in January, representatives of the Trump family approached Parler with an offer to have the then-president move the bulk of his social media presence to the platform in exchange for 40 percent of the company’s gross revenues and a promise to “ban anyone who spoke negatively about him,” New York Magazine reported on Monday. The company was reportedly on board with giving Trump much of its revenues but balked at his demands to censor his critics.
It was a flashback to NYC in the 1990s.
The killing of Iran’s tyrannical Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Saturday in an unprecedented joint military attack by the US and Israel called Operation Epic Fury set off widespread celebrations from Iranians around the world — as President Trump said it would give them their “greatest chance” to “take back the country.” Meanwhile, in Iran, a lack of internet has made it impossible for Iranians to easily communicate daily conditions. Over a period of three days, with limited VPN connection, an eyewitness currently in Tehran — who, for her safety, is concealing her identity — shared her account of life under a country in the midst of battle with The Post’s Natasha Pearlman.
After exactly 120 years, the curtain has fallen on the Theater District institution Barbetta, with the iconic Italian restaurant having served its final course Friday night.