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Parler helped the FBI identify at least one person charged in connection with the Capitol riot

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Two crossed lines that form an 'X'. It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification.An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. It often indicates a user profile.Redeem nowSign up for our newsletter to receive our top stories based on your reading preferences — delivered daily to your inbox.Something is loading.Parler is sharing information with the FBI for the Department of Justice's investigations into the riot at the US Capitol. says stockpiled more than 1,000 rounds of ammo and threatened to kill Sen.-elect Raphael Warnock of Georgia.The affidavit says the FBI received records from Parler to identify the user behind the account "LoneWolfWar," where the threats originated. Parler provided the phone number associated with the account, the affidavit says, and the FBI used it, and info from T-Mobile, to identify Florea.See also:Florea, a professed supporter of the Proud Boys, a neofascist pro-Trump group with chapters across the US, and remains in jail while awaiting trial.Florea ultimately didn't travel to Washington, DC, for the protest turned insurrection at the Capitol on January 6. The affidavit says that on that day, though, Florea posted that New York, where he lives, was "target rich."It's not clear whether Parler handed over the account information to the FBI after the Department of Justice issued a warrant or subpoena for it or whether the company gave the information over of its own accord.It is typical for major tech platforms to cooperate with law-enforcement requests. Local and federal prosecutors routinely obtain the location and text-message history of suspects from cellphone carriers like T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&amp;T as well as direct messages from platforms such as Facebook and Twitter., Parler also recently cooperated with a separate FBI investigation, in a case against Michael Reyes, who's accused of threatening to kill President Donald Trump and Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett.Court documents show that Parler provided the email address, phone number, signup IP address, and creation date of an account where the threats were made, and associated with Reyes, after the "FBI submitted an exigent request to Parler for subscriber information."But the knowledge that Parler is cooperating with law enforcement for cases related to the Capitol insurrection could create problems for the social-media platform.Parler has a large user base of far-right extremists. The Department of Justice says many of those people used the platform to organize violence at the Capitol.It has also become a haven for people barred from other social-media outlets — such as Lin Wood, who has spread conspiracy theories about the 2020 US election and used Twitter to call for the execution of Vice President Mike Pence and Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts — as well as right-wing media personalities, such as the Fox News host Mark Levin, who believe they can't freely express themselves on other platforms.The platform when Amazon, which hosted its servers, cut it off, saying it "cannot provide services to a customer that is unable to effectively identify and remove content that encourages or incites violence against others." Before that decision, Apple and Google booted Parler's app from their smartphone app stores.Parler and Amazon are involved in a lawsuit over the service cancellation, where Amazon has detailed some of the violent and threatening messages on the platform in court filings. Parler CEO John Matze another host for the service but .Representatives for Parler didn't immediately provide comment because a spokesperson was "out to lunch right now" and later "swamped with calls." Representatives for the US Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, which is overseeing investigations related to the Capitol riot, also didn't respond to requests for comment from Insider. A representative for the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York, where Florea was arrested, declined to comment.The Department of Justice said it had opened more than 160 investigations into people at the Capitol on January 6, with more expected.Many of so far show investigations based on publicly available social-media activity rather than information obtained directly from social-media companies.Members of the pro-Trump mob livestreamed their activities or allowed themselves to be photographed while storming the Capitol. The documents also show that federal agents and .Most of the information in court filings was supplied to establish just cause for officials to arrest the people suspected of participating in the insurrection. Prosecutors normally provide more information when filing an indictment and when bringing evidence for a trial.Something is loading.Sign up for notifications from Insider! 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Two crossed lines that form an 'X'. It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification.An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. It often indicates a user profile.Redeem nowSign up for our newsletter to receive our top stories based on your reading preferences — delivered daily to your inbox.Something is loading.Parler is sharing information with the FBI for the Department of Justice's investigations into the riot at the US Capitol. says stockpiled more than 1,000 rounds of ammo and threatened to kill Sen.-elect Raphael Warnock of Georgia.The affidavit says...

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Parler helped the FBI identify at least one person charged in connection with the Capitol riot

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