Explainer-Parler: what is the social media app Kanye West is buying?

By Josie Kao

Technology
Wednesday, 19 Oct 2022
7:39 AM MYT

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FILE PHOTO: American rapper Kanye West's picture is seen on a smartphone in front of the logo of social media app Parler in this Illustration taken, October 17, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo

(Reuters) - U.S. rapper Kanye West, who now goes by Ye, has agreed in principle to buy social media platform Parler, which is popular among U.S. conservatives, the app's parent company said on Monday.

Ye's offer comes after the artist was locked out of his Twitter and Instagram accounts this month for making posts that online users condemned as anti-Semitic.

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Explainer-Parler: what is the social media app Kanye West is buying?