A new court filing on Friday, January 15, 2021, from the Parler legal team revealed its CEO John Matze and his family are now in hiding over death threats and security breaches they have faced.
Parler, a social media app that has been widely embraced by Trump supporters, launched an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon after the tech giants disabled its web services following last week's riots on Capitol Hill. Amazon filed a response, claiming it has "no legal basis" and alleged its employees have been faced with threats and harassment.
According to the filing from Parler's lawyers, as obtained by Fox News, it acknowledges the disturbing claims made by Amazon but note that the Jeff Bezos-run company is not the one receiving threats.
"Although AWS’s motion to seal focuses only on its own employees, Parler’s employees have been similarly harassed and threatened," the filing read. "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.
"Matze himself, as the CEO of the company 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," the filing continued.
Earlier last week, during an interview with Fox News, Matze highlighted the various threats he has received and the measures he would take to protect his family.
"There is a group called UGNazi that is targeting me," Matze said, noting the controversial hacker group has released many of his passwords and personal information on the internet. "They published my street address, they threatened to come through my front door."
He usually doesn’t take threats directed at him too seriously, he said. But this time he’s gone into hiding with his family.
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January 17, 2021
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