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Washington (AP) - The Twitter alternative Parler, popular with supporters of ex-President Donald Trump and the American right-wing, is online again after a one-month forced break.
On Monday, messages could be sent again and new accounts created.
Parler went offline in mid-January after Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in Washington.
The reason was that Amazon, as an infrastructure service provider, threw the platform from the servers with reference to calls for violence.
At first it remained unclear who is Parler's technical service provider.
Parler described itself as an online platform focused on free speech.
In reality it was a kind of Twitter copy where everything is allowed.
The relatively small platform largely dispensed with regulating content and did little to counter hate speech, threats and the spread of false information.
In view of the increasingly tough crackdown on calls for violence and conspiracy theories by Twitter and Facebook, more Trump supporters migrated to Parler last year.
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Trump was banned from Twitter and Facebook after the attack on the parliament building.
Twitter - until then by far the most important platform for him - stressed last week that there was no turning back for the ex-president.
Facebook is still having the blockade checked by an independent body that can reverse the decisions of the online network.
According to media reports, Parler wooed Trump when he was still president - with the proposal to make the app his exclusive communication channel.
People in Trump's circle had repeatedly advertised Parler as an alternative to Twitter or Facebook because they allegedly suppressed conservative views.
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