Parler CEO John Matze expects his controversial social network to return online soon, despite Amazon launching the application on its servers.
“I’m confident we’ll be back by the end of the month,” Matze told Fox News on Sunday night.
“Every day it changes wildly, but now I feel confident,” he added. “We are making significant progress.”
Matze’s outlook for Parler’s future has improved since last week, when he told a federal court that his company faces the “prospect of permanent destruction” after Amazon Web Services forced it into the dark.
AWS cut off access to the Parler server last Monday because of concerns about the living company’s failure to control the graphic threats of violence its users posted before and after the January 6 Chapter riots.
But Parler regained its online site on Sunday after appearing to move its domain name to Epik, a web company that has generated controversy for hosting extremist content. Parler posted a message on the site promising the “lovers and haters” of the application that he would return soon.
In addition, Matze told Fox that Parler was able to recover data from Amazon on Friday, which he called a key step toward reconstruction.
“Despite all this, I haven’t given up a single employee,” Matze told Fox. “No one, even if they are harassed and threatened, no one gave up … we have such a strong team, that just made them believe more in us.”
Parler filed a federal lawsuit against Amazon Web Services, accusing the technology giant of forcing the application offline because of “political animus.”
Amazon’s move – which followed Apple and Google’s decisions to stop downloading Parler’s mobile app – has prompted other tech giants, such as Slack and Stripe, to drop Parler as a customer, further hampering its operations, Matze said.
Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday.