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Far-right friendly social media website Parler will move its headquarters to Nashville

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Parler announced Tuesday in an email that it would relocate its headquarters from Henderson, Nevada to Nashville.

CEO George Farmer wrote that the move coincides with the company’s return to in-person work.

He says he appreciates Tennessee’s weather, “southern hospitality”, music and barbecue.

“Even more than that, though, Tennessee shares Parler’s vision of individual liberty and free expression,” he writes.

Parler is one of many companies choosing to put down roots in Tennessee. The press release points to recent announcements from businesses like Oracle, Ford, and the gun manufacturer Smith & Wesson.

Parler came under fire after the Capitol riots in January for not limiting calls to violence and other illegal activity. It had been banned from Apple and Google’s apps stores earlier this spring.

In the press release, the company says with its new home in Tennessee, it will  “continue to be that beacon of free speech.” 

Paige Pfleger, Criminal Justice Reporter

Paige Pfleger covers criminal justice for WPLN News. She has investigated guns and juvenile justice as a fellow with ProPublica's Local Reporting Network, and her investigation into domestic violence and firearms dispossession won a regional Edward R. Murrow award and was a finalist for an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award and a Livingston Award. She previously covered criminal justice and addiction in Ohio and was named the state's reporter of the year by the Associated Press. Her work has appeared nationally on NPR, The Washington Post, Marketplace, and PRI's The World, and she has worked in the newsrooms of The Tennessean, Michigan Radio, WHYY, Vox and NPR headquarters in DC.

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