US rapper Kanye West has entered into an agreement to buy alternative social media site Parler, a platform associated with right-wing conservatives.
The news comes after Kanye , who has legally changed his name to Ye, was locked out of Instagram and Twitter for violating the policies of the platforms by making anti-Semitic comments. His Instagram account was suspended after he accused rapper Diddy of being controlled by Jewish people.
He was barred from Twitter shortly afterwards for saying that he would go “death con three on Jewish people”, seeming to reference the Defcon alert state used by the US Armed Forces. Now the rapper has begun the process of buying Parler, saying: “In a world where conservative opinions are considered to be controversial, we have to make sure we have the right to freely express ourselves.”
