Kanye West agrees to buy right-wing platform Parler

Ye, formerly known arsenic Kanye West, has agreed to bargain the self-styled "uncancellable" social-media level Parler, the institution has announced.

Last week, the star's Twitter and Instagram accounts were locked, aft helium posted anti-Semitic messages.

Parler has surged successful popularity among US conservatives arsenic the much mainstream platforms ace down connected misinformation.

Ye "will ne'er person to fearfulness being removed from societal media again", main enforcement George Farmer posted.

The announcement, connected PR Newswire, says: "Under the presumption of their statement successful principle, the parties mean to participate into a definitive acquisition statement and expect to adjacent during the 4th fourth of 2022."

The woody volition see "ongoing method support" from the company, it adds.

BBC News has asked Parler for much accusation astir the "agreement successful principle".

Ye - who changed his sanction successful 2021 - wrote: "In a satellite wherever blimpish opinions are considered to beryllium controversial, we person to marque definite we person the close to freely explicit ourselves."

He responded to his suspension by re-joining Twitter and tweeting helium would spell "death con 3 connected Jewish people", earning him a 2nd disbarment.

Parler, founded successful 2018, says it has 15 cardinal registered users.

Google and Apple's app stores and Amazon's web-hosting work suspended the level aft users posted videos and pictures of themselves breaking into the US Capitol gathering connected 6 January.

But it was reinstated to the app stores aft changes successful enactment and its moderation policy.