Kanye West to buy social media app Parler

Parler, a controversial conservative social media platform, has revealed that Kanye West is buying it.

Soon after, the rap artist formerly known as Kanye West makes a bid to purchase Parler, a social network that is attractive to right-wingers having his accounts banned from Twitter and Instagram due to anti-Semitic statements.

On Monday, Parlement Technologies, Parler's parent company said "pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement in principle for Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, to acquire the Parler platform."

Parler CEO George Farmer added: "Ye's acquiring of Parler will strengthen our ability to create an uncancelable ecosystem. No one should have to self-censor out of uncertainty about which legal speech will get him or her banned. No individual or business should worry about being completely de platformed, as Parler was, merely for the expression of opposing viewpoints. Groupthink is, and always has been, more dangerous than independent thinking.

"Parler will remain a place where everyone can think, listen, and speak freely. We will continue the fight against censorship, cancel culture, and authoritarianism."

“This deal will change the world, and change the way the world thinks about free speech," he said in the statement.