American rapper Kanye West, who now goes by the name Ye, has proposed to buy Parler, the social media platform popular among US conservatives, parent company Parlement Technologies said on Monday.
Kanye West was recently locked out of his Instagram account by Facebook parent company Meta Platforms for posts online users condemned as anti-Semitic. File photo.American rapper Kanye West, who now goes by the name Ye, has proposed to buy Parler, the social media platform popular among US conservatives, parent company Parlement Technologies said on Monday.
The deal comes as Parler, launched in 2018 and styled as a free speech space for those seeking an alternative to platforms such as Twitter, has been reinstated on Google and Apple’s app stores after being removed following the US Capitol riots in January 2021. The rapper has also had problems with major social media platforms, being restricted a number of times.
“In a world where conservative opinions are considered to be controversial, we have to make sure we have the right to freely express ourselves,” Ye said in a statement.
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