American musician and designer Kanye West, who additionally goes by the identify Ye, has agreed to purchase social media platform Parler. The US startup has raised $56 million since its basis in 2018.
As reported by Reuters, the information was confirmed by Parler’s guardian firm Parlement Applied sciences, primarily based in Nashville, Tennessee. The social media app is claimed to be common amongst proper wing US conservatives as a substitute for Twitter and it competes with related platforms akin to Gettr, Gab and former US President Donald Trump’s enterprise, Fact Social.
YourStory has not independently verified the report.
The platform was faraway from the Google Play Retailer and Apple App Retailer following the Capitol Riots on January 6, 2021 in Washington DC, which was suspected of being organised on different ‘free speech’ social media apps akin to Parler. Nonetheless, it has been reinstated in each shops.
The corporate declined to disclose the dimensions of the deal however stated that it will be closed in the course of the fourth quarter of 2022. Talks for its acquisition started not too long ago in keeping with CEO George Farmer, following the Paris Trend Week, which concluded on October 4.
Kanye West has been in information not too long ago for his anti-Semitic statements because the world trend occasion. Throughout the Trend Week, he wore a shirt that said ‘White Lives Matter’.
