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No he didn't. This is what the article says, "On Saturday, CEO and co-founder John Matze said one of the privately-owned company's early investors is Rebekah Mercer"

What's more, I've also read the Wall Street Journal article on the subject which made it even clearer.

"Ms. Mercer, in a post on Parler after a version of this article was published, said that her father had no involvement or ownership of the company."




She later posted: "My father, Robert Mercer, has neither involvement with, nor ownership of, Parler."

https://parler.com/post/90d032f4e22243fd82f7dd9a5b27208d


She runs the Mercer Family Foundation through which her father donated over $100million to rightwing propaganda causes. Point being that they work closely together and have shared ideologies.




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