The purchase through the rapper, who replaced his call to Ye in 2021, is expected to be finalized by the end of the year.
Kanye West is buying right-wing social network Parler for an undisclosed amount, The announced.
The acquisition through the rapper, who legally called Ye last year, is expected to be finalized in the fourth quarter of this year.
“In a world where conservative perspectives are considered controversial, we will have to ensure that we have the right to express ourselves freely,” he said in a statement.
George Farmer, chief executive of Parler’s parent company, Parliament Technologies, said: “This deal will replace the global and replace the way the world thinks about free speech. Ye is taking a revolutionary step in the area of loose-speech media and will never back down. “You have to worry about being removed from social media.
Farmer, who is married to West’s friend right-wing activist Candace Owens and is the son of former Conservative Party treasurer and fellow fellow Michael Farmer, added: “Once again, Ye shows that he is one step ahead of the legacy media narrative. Parliament will be an honor to help you achieve your goals. Parler Technologies will continue to operate as an independent company, according to a press release, offering “technical and personal cloud usage services” to Parler’s site.
The social network founded in 2018 through John Matze and Rebekah Mercer, the daughter of billionaire hedge fund manager and Breitbart co-owner Robert Mercer. expulsion and his replacement in May 2021 through Farmer.
Following the attack on the U. S. Capitol, Parler got rid of the Apple and Google app stores, and on January 10 went completely offline after Amazon Web Services got rid of its account.
Despite being billed as a “free speech” social network, the site was forced to load content moderation to restore it to Apple’s App Store in May 2021 and didn’t return to Android devices until September 2022.
Parler is just one of many similar platforms, adding Truth Social, founded by Trump, and the independent network Gab, whose use of a frog logo has led to it engaging with the “alt-right,” even though it said it settled on the logo. as “a symbol of prosperity”.
West’s decision to win the site comes after a series of anti-Semitic outbursts prevented his account from posting on Instagram and Twitter. in which he accused Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, of running for the nonprofit Israeli government.
He then used Instagram to share the content of a text chat with Sean Combs, known through his rapper pseudonyms Diddy and Puff Daddy, in which he accused Combs of being controlled through “Jews. “After West’s Instagram account was suspended in reaction to the post. , which the American Jewish Committee called “anti-Jewish,” took to Twitter, where his account had been inactive for some years.
There, he posted that he would pass “dead [sic] with 3 on JEWS. The funny thing is that I can’t be anti-Semitic because other black people are also Jewish. You’ve played with me and tried to control anyone who opposes their agenda. Twitter temporarily deleted the post and blocked his account.
His latest explosion came less than half an hour after former Twitter owner Elon Musk welcomed him to the site, and a few days later, Musk tweeted to say, “I spoke to you today and expressed my thoughts on your recent tweet. “, which I think he took very seriously.
The next day, Shop’s podcast canceled a recording with West after he “used Shop to reiterate more incredibly damaging hate speech and stereotypes. “West has still commented on the cancellation.