Parler

Ye "will never have to fear being removed from social media again", Parler boss George Farmer posts.

But the platform was eventually reinstated to the app stores after changes in leadership and its moderation policy. And it was revealed that some rioters had posted videos and pictures of themselves breaking into the Capitol to Parler. [Sensor Tower](https://app.sensortower.com/android/publisher/publisher/Parler), the app was downloaded 90,000 times last month globally, compared to 9 million downloads for Twitter. Parler has struggled to remain relevant in recent months, after an explosion in growth after the US elections in 2020. It says: "Under the terms of their agreement in principle, the parties intend to enter into a definitive purchase agreement and expect to close during the fourth quarter of 2022." Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, has agreed to buy the self-styled "uncancellable" social-media platform Parler, the company has announced.

American rapper Kanye West, who now goes by Ye, has agreed in principle to buy Parler, the social media platform popular among US conservatives. Nashville-based Parler, which has raised about $US56 million ($A89 million) to date, says it expects the ...

It later rose to 3900. It has not given a deal value. Four days later, he made Instagram posts that several Jewish groups called anti-Semitic.

Purchase by rapper, who changed name to Ye in 2021, expected to be completed by end of year.

After West’s Instagram account was suspended in response to the post, which the American Jewish Committee called “anti-Jewish”, he turned to Twitter, where his account had been dormant for some years. Parlement will be honoured to help him achieve his goals.” Parlement Technologies will continue to operate as an independent company, according to a press release, providing “technical support and the use of private cloud services” to the Parler site. The social network was founded in 2018 by John Matze and Rebekah Mercer, the daughter of the billionaire hedge fund manager and Breitbart co-owner Robert Mercer. Ye is making a groundbreaking move into the free speech media space and will never have to fear being removed from social media again.” There, he posted that he would be going “death [sic] con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE. After [donning a “white lives matter” shirt](https://www.theguardian.com/music/commentisfree/2022/oct/07/kanye-west-white-lives-matter-tucker-carlson) alongside Owens during Paris fashion week, West joined the Fox News host Tucker Carlson for an interview in which he accused Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, of having worked with the Israeli government for personal profit.

Ye West said that he wants to buy Parler to make sure that those with conservative political viewpoints "have the right to freely express ourselves".

It has not given a deal value. "By owning Parler, Kanye can make sure he can say what he wants on the platform," Megan Brown and Joshua Tucker of New York University's center for social media and politics said in a note. Four days later, he made Instagram posts that several Jewish groups called anti-Semitic. West seemed to have joined Parler on Monday and had about 91 followers at the time of the announcement. Parler wasfrom Apple and Google app stores last year for failing to moderate calls for violence after the attack on the US Capitol by supporters of former US president Donald Trump. The 45-year-old rapper, producer, and fashion designer, who now goes by the name Ye, said in a release that he wants to buy Parler to make sure that those with conservative political viewpoints "have the right to freely express ourselves".

Nashville-based Parler, which has raised about $US56 million ($A89 million) to date, says it expects the deal to close during the fourth quarter of 2022. It has ...

It later rose to 3900. It has not given a deal value. Four days later, he made Instagram posts that several Jewish groups called anti-Semitic.

Rapper Kanye West, who is now legally known as Ye, could be in control of the right-wing social media network Parler by the end of the year.

I'm just going to go buy my own social network'." It announced a relaunch a few weeks after the attack and returned to Google Play last month. Another right-leaning platform Gettr has 3.8 million monthly active users. Parler is owned by Parlement Technologies. "Ye is making a groundbreaking move into the free speech media space and will never have to fear being removed from social media again." In the email shared by Ryan, the Parler Outreach Team writes: "While we can't share all the details just yet, we expect the sale to be complete by the end of this year".

Hear Ye Hear Ye! The news today has broken that Kanye West – who calls himself Ye – has bought Parler, the Trumpist social media platform. The news was…

‘While I cannot provide all the details today, I have complete confidence that Parler, as both a platform and a community, will experience the limitless growth it deserves,’ he said. All three companies pride themselves on fighting the fight against cancel culture, but Parler has rather fallen behind Gettr and Truth Social in terms of public relevance. The news was announced earlier by Parler CEO George Farmer, the son of Lord Farmer, the Conservative peer.

Rapper Kanye West speaks during a meeting in the Oval Office with President Trump on Oct. 11, 2018. (Evan Vucci/AP). By Anousha ...

“Through West’s efforts, Parler has the potential to become more mainstream,” Edwards said. Its ranking tumbled from third place among social/micro blogging apps in the U.S. Capitol, saying the company hadn’t done enough to curb threats to safety. “While Parler has always prohibited violent or other rights-violating content, we agree with Nadine Strossen and other scholars that ‘objectionable’ but otherwise lawful speech is best addressed by allowing or encouraging more speech.” Edwards, executive director, Texas Social Media Research Institute at Tarleton State University. in the first half of 2021 to 10th in the first half of this year. Launched in 2018, Parler is based in Nashville. Apple and Google last year removed Parler from their app stores following the deadly Jan. “People had talked about it and mentioned this idea for years, but enough was enough.” “People who have never heard of the social media platform will flock to it, merely out of curiosity.” “Parler’s content policies are based on the principle of individual rights — including everyone’s inalienable rights to speak freely and think for themselves,” Amy Peikoff, head of policy and legal at Parler, said in a statement. [, agreed to a deal in principle](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2022-10-16/kanye-west-antisemitism-adidas-def-jam-caa-the-gap-tucker-carlson-kardashian) to sell itself to the controversial rapper and fashion designer, the company [said](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ye-formerly-known-as-kanye-west-to-acquire-parler-platform-301650579.html) Monday.

The rapper's antisemitic remarks have got him banned from Twitter and Instagram. But here's a safe space where he'll be able to say just what he likes, ...

if you are an honest person, you did not think this tweet was antisemitic.” (If I’m honest, I think it was.) The Farmer-Owens-West connection has led a number of people to [suspect](https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1582009265602015239?s=20&t=udiZAuSrujiRDgOf3PlPZQ) that the Parler acquisition was a [brilliant manoeuvre](https://spectatorworld.com/topic/candace-owens-cashing-kanye-west-parler/) on Owens’ part to get West to redistribute some of his wealth to her family. Elon Musk said he was buying Twitter then said he wasn’t buying Twitter and now [seems to be buying Twitter](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/05/what-elon-musk-might-do-with-twitter-deal-buy) again. In a statement, it said West is [making](https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/17/tech/kanye-west-ye-parler/index.html) “a groundbreaking move into the free speech media space and will never have to fear being removed from social media again”. When she’s not dreaming about liberating Australia, Owens is busy palling around with West; the pair recently wore “ [White Lives Matter”](https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/07/entertainment/tucker-carlson-kanye-west/index.html) shirts at Paris fashion week. What is keeping me up at night, however, is the rightward drift of more mainstream platforms such as CNN. You guys have toyed with me and tried to black ball anyone whoever opposes your agenda.” This is obviously indefensible, but Owens did her best, [saying on her podcast](https://www.newsweek.com/jewish-groups-slam-candace-owens-saying-kanye-west-comments-not-anti-semitic-1750782): “If you’re an honest person, when you read this tweet, you had no idea what the hell he was talking about … The musician, who has been moving dramatically to the [right in recent years](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/14/kanye-west-keeps-moving-further-and-further-to-the-right-why?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR3HJdx5Es0x-ebHQ7eiHjPlYPL_QPzck-CahjNQi32MrMO4vmLm9XHWhE8#Echobox=1665909035), had his Twitter and Instagram accounts locked this month because of antisemitic comments. [pundit who once suggested](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/22/rightwing-us-pundit-candace-owens-compares-australian-government-to-the-taliban-calling-it-a-tyrannical-police-state-) the US military invade Australia in order to free its people “suffering under a totalitarian regime”. [bigoted](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/14/kanye-west-keeps-moving-further-and-further-to-the-right-why) things, is [buying Parler](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/17/kanye-west-to-buy-right-wing-social-network-parler), a social network designed especially for people who like to say bigoted things. While it may look suspiciously like they’re too fragile to deal with other people’s opinions, conservatives always couch their obsession with building echo chambers in terms of “free speech”. of our tech overlords](https://www.reuters.com/article/parler-funding-mercer/social-media-platform-parler-gets-backing-from-mercer-family-wsj-idUSKBN27V020)”; it had a brief moment of popularity [then that fizzled out](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2020-07-15/social-media-app-parler-a-gop-darling-isn-t-catching-on). [changed](https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-58965500) his name to Ye, is interested in Parler, which, one imagines, may soon change its name to Er.

The agreement in principle to buy the social media service comes days after Twitter and Instagram restricted the rapper's account for violating its terms.

Over the weekend, the rap YouTube series Drink Champs released a new episode featuring Ye in which he repeated several antisemitic conspiracy theories and questioned the cause of the death of George Floyd, the Black man who was murdered in 2020 by a police officer in Minneapolis. 1, as [millions of Trump supporters](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/11/technology/parler-rumble-newsmax.html), critical of what they deemed censorship on Facebook and Twitter, signed up. But despite the services’ limited reach, Pew found that most of the people who do frequent such places for news said they found like-minded company there. [Data.ai](http://data.ai/), a platform that provides consumer and market data. From its start in 2018, Parler, which is based is Nashville, has railed against censorship and has presented itself as a “free speech” social network, with less stringent content rules than sites such as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter. Trump, the service’s parent company, Parlement Technologies, said in a news release on Monday.