Google has allowed Parler again onto the Google Play Store, based on a tweet from the social media platform, after it eliminated the app in January 2021, citing the platform’s lack of moderation on posts inciting violence on the US Capitol. Apple re-instated Parler to its App Store in May 2021, after briefly eradicating it across the identical time Google did.

Parler, which advertises itself as a platform free of charge speech, agreed to reasonable posts that present up within the Play Store app, based on a Bloomberg report. The firm beforehand advised The Verge that it has an identical deal that enables it to stay on the App Store — “Anything allowed on the Parler network but not in the iOS app will remain accessible through our web-based and Android versions.” (The Android model was, on the time, out there by way of side-loading and subsequently didn’t have to adapt to Google Play insurance policies.) The firm additionally stated that its algorithm may detect violent content material that violates its tips.

Parler isn’t the one social community that’s been in talks with Google to get on the Play Store — former president Donald Trump’s social community, Truth Social, has confronted related challenges. As the corporate behind the app, Digital World Acquisition Corp., faces mounting payments, it says it’s been working “in good faith with Google” to get onto its app distribution platform. Meanwhile, Trump has used the platform to publish messages which will put Truth Social in battle with the Play Store’s user-generated content policy.