Thread by @WendySiegelman

Trump backer Rebekah Mercer orchestrates Parler’s second act - Mercer, whose family invested in Breitbart and Cambridge Analytica, holds majority stake and controls 2 of 3 Parler board seats, by @rachelerman

washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

After Parler was knocked offline related to role in Capitol riot, it's back online with new CEO, former tea party patriots leader Mark Meckler. Matthew Richardson, former party secretary of right-wing UK Independence Party (UKIP), joined the exec committee
washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

Earlier reporting I'd missed on this story

https://twitter.com/alexkotch/status/1361419559773687810?s=20

There has not been nearly enough reporting on the network of politicians, companies, funders that led to and link together Trump and Brexit - the Mercers, Steve Bannon, Nigel Farage, Arron Banks, Matthew Elliott, and others

https://twitter.com/WendySiegelman/status/1364576471659008008?s=20

https://twitter.com/WendySiegelman/status/1014860903165104128?s=20

https://twitter.com/WendySiegelman/status/1179882774523777024?s=20

Thanks @brexit_sham for tying this all together here:

https://twitter.com/brexit_sham/status/1364583684754599947?s=20

While individuals who attacked the US Capitol are arrested and charged - will the wealthy & powerful, like the billionaire Mercer family, who helped orchestrate Trump's 2016 election, back Parler and orgs that foment extremist ideas - be held to account?

https://twitter.com/WendySiegelman/status/1364573083319889922?s=20

https://twitter.com/judykrausbrown/status/1364593925726498816?s=20

https://twitter.com/MountainsStars/status/1364596054411276289?s=20