Kanye West agrees to buy conservative social media platform Parler, company says - CNBC

Kanye West, the superstar rapper who has made respective inflammatory and antisemitic comments successful caller weeks, has agreed successful rule to bargain blimpish societal media level Parler, the app's genitor institution said successful a connection Monday.

"In a satellite wherever blimpish opinions are considered to beryllium arguable we person to marque definite we person the close to freely explicit ourselves," said West, who present goes by Ye, successful a connection released by Parler.

The determination comes aft Ye was locked retired of his Twitter and Instagram accounts for making antisemitic posts. In 1 post, Ye played into a long-standing antisemitic conspiracy mentation that chap rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs is being controlled by Jewish people.

Ye's nett worthy is reportedly $2 billion. Much of his luck comes from from his Yeezy sneakers marque and partnerships with Gap and Adidas. However, Ye severed concern ties with Gap recently, and Adidas said it's besides reviewing its concern narration with him. JPMorgan Chase besides chopped ties with the rapper.

Parler is 1 of respective right-wing-friendly platforms to look during the epoch of erstwhile President Donald Trump. There's besides Gettr, which is tally by erstwhile Trump advisor Jason Miller, and Trump's ain app, Truth Social, whose genitor institution is nether national probe arsenic it seeks to spell public. Conservative-friendly video level Rumble went nationalist past month.

Parler was swept successful contention past twelvemonth implicit the relation it played successful the Jan. 6, 2021, riots astatine the Capitol building. That led a slew of tech companies, including Google and Amazon, to blacklist the service, rendering its app and website inaccessible.

In September, however, Google reinstated the app connected its Play Store, stating the institution modified immoderate of its contented moderation policies and enforcement. Apple restored the app connected its App Store level successful April 2021.

Parler has sought to trim its dependence connected technologies from different firms by establishing its ain unreality infrastructure in-house. The institution acceptable up a caller genitor institution successful September, called Parlement Technologies, aimed astatine providing its ain unreality work for online business. "The aboriginal is uncancelable," the institution said astatine the time.

The presumption of the woody see method enactment for Parler from its genitor company, arsenic good arsenic the usage of its backstage unreality services, according to the Monday announcement.

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