Leaked audio from a February 8 meeting reveals Parler's chief policy officer saying: “We are not going after misinformation in any way”
Leaked recordings of meetings detail role of Rebekah Mercer at social-media platform — Conservative donor Rebekah Mercer has been writing checks …
BloombergWilliam Turton
Context & Ripple Effects
Parler's pitch since its user base doubled to 10M in a week has been minimal moderation, with policing left to users rather than the company. The leaked February 8 audio makes that positioning explicit at the leadership level: the chief policy officer states the platform will not act against misinformation, while the recordings also detail donor Rebekah Mercer's operational role.
The timing matters because it lands between two blows already covered: service providers cutting Parler off in January left CEO John Matze unsure the network would return, and reporting showed Mercer controlling two of three board seats as she exerted control after Matze's exit. A week after this leak, Matze sued, alleging Mercer plotted to force him out and take his stake.
The chief policy officer's statement converts 'we don't moderate' from a design choice into a stated corporate policy, hardening how regulators and service providers read Parler's posture.
Second-order effects
App stores and cloud hosts that severed ties in January now face a company explicitly committed to non-enforcement, weakening any case for reinstatement and pushing Parler further toward self-hosted infrastructure.
Mainstream advertisers and partners evaluating Parler get a documented answer on misinformation risk, narrowing its revenue options to aligned funders like Mercer herself.
Third-order effects
If investor-controlled moderation becomes the norm at ideologically aligned platforms, accountability shifts from public content rules to private capital — the dynamic behind Parler's eventual pivot to selling 'uncancelable' cloud services under the Parlement name.
Distribution-layer decisions by hosts and stores are emerging as the real enforcement point for platforms that decline to moderate themselves.
The trend: Politically aligned platforms are consolidating around owner-set moderation policy and alternative infrastructure, moving enforcement of their choices from within the platform to the distributors who carry it.
NEW: leaked audio reveals conservative megadonor Rebekah Mercer was “writing the checks” to get Parler app back online. ...and executive @AmyPeikoff saying the site has no plans to go after misinformation. 1/ Scoop by @WilliamTurton https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Writing big checks to the new CEO who also helped create the Tea Party for the CNP. Is this situation getting clearer to anyone? https://twitter.com/...
AUDIO: “We've written big checks these past couple days, with respect to the fact that we have now two data centers....So far who's writing all the checks for this stuff is Rebekah Mercer. So that's the support she has for Parler.” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Conservative donor Rebekah Mercer has been writing checks to finance the social media platform Parler's reboot https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @technology
People should note that the billionaire Mercer family, which is financing the resuscitation of Parler — infamous as a hub of 1/6 planning — and which financed Breitbart before that, is also putting its weight behind J.D. Vance's potential senatorial ambitions. https://twitter.com…
LEAKED RECORDINGS: Audio tapes of internal Parler meetings reveal conservative donor Rebekah Mercer is writing “big checks” to bring the site back online. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
A detail not included in this story: both Wernick and Meckler assured Parler staff there would be no layoffs. Then, Parler fired 7 people, including all of its iOS developers. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
This is not new news, but suffice it to say that Rebekah Mercer is a deeply dangerous person, who continues to fund projects that push racism, calls to violence and the undermining of democracy. Breitbart, Cambridge Analytica and Parler are all Mercer-funded projects. https://twi…