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Newt's World

Episode 297: George Farmer on Parler’s Comeback

Newt's World

Gingrich 360

Politics, News

4.66.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The social media app Parler was really starting to gain traction, when, after the events of January 6th, it was abruptly removed from the Apple App Store, Google Play and Amazon Web Services refused to host the site any longer. Then, Parler had to rebuild their entire platform to deal with big tech’s censorship. Parler is now back online. Newt’s guest is George Farmer, CEO of Parler.

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On this episode of Newt's World, the social media app parlor was really starting to gain traction.

0:41.7

When after the events of January 6th, it was abruptly removed from the Apple App Store, Google

0:47.7

and Amazon Web Services, who refused to host a site any longer. Then parlor had to rebuild their

0:54.0

entire platform to deal with big tech censorship. It has been a months-long process and they now

1:01.0

have a new CEO of parlor, his name is George Farmer and he's the son of a conservative member

1:07.7

of the House of Lords in the United Kingdom. He's a well-known UK conservative in his own right

1:13.7

and he's married to Candace Owens. Now he's leading parlor to an extraordinary comeback.

1:19.6

I'm very pleased to welcome my guest, George Farmer CEO of parlor.

1:36.7

George, thanks for joining me. I'm very curious. What was your background that got you involved in

1:43.2

doing this? Well, thanks very much for having me, Newt. It's a pleasure to be here and in

1:47.8

honour to speak to someone such as yourself with a very long and distinguished career in conservative

1:52.8

politics across the side of the pond. My background really began, I guess, when I left university,

2:00.4

and I started working finance. That was about a dozen years ago now and I began my career

2:07.9

in investment banking and then after that I moved within the financial world into the hedge funds

2:13.6

there and took over as partner at hedge fund red kite where my father started out in 2005. He and I

2:21.4

ran it together for a few years. I was a trader on the desk there. We had some serious

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