Hi, I'm Dan Pramak and welcome to Axios Recap.

Today's Tuesday, January 12th.

Social media stocks are down, average daily COVID deaths are up past 3,000,

and we're focused on the fall of Parliament.

You might remember that in November, shortly after the election, we interviewed the chief policy

officer of Parlor, a relatively new social media site that had become a right-wing alternative

to Twitter, where moderation was light and quote-unquote free speech was the rallying cry.

In subsequent months, Parlor continued to grow,

regularly topping both the Apple and Google Play app stores. But so did the anger of many in its

community toward the election outcome, driven by baseless conspiracy theories of President Trump

and many of his acolytes. And after last Wednesday's attack on the Capitol, it became obvious that many of the insurrectionists

not only had made their intentions clear on Parlor, but had also used it as one of their

online organizing tools.

The blowback was Swift.

Apple and Google kicked Parlor out of their app stores.

On Sunday night, Amazon stopped it from using AWS, its massive cloud hosting platform,

which effectively took Parlor offline.

Parlor responded yesterday by suing Amazon, claiming antitrust and contractual violations,

but it remains down as of this taping.

And then, it was discovered that someone had scraped all of the posts

on Parlor, including posts that users had subsequently deleted. It wasn't exactly a hack,

but it certainly seemed to suggest some security flaws. The bottom line is that Parlor

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