Parler agrees to be acquired by Ye, formerly Kanye West, to create “an uncancelable ecosystem where all voices are welcome”; the deal is set to close in Q4 2022
and will also sign up to Truth Social Clare Duffy / CNN : Kanye West's biggest challenge with owning Parler may come from Elon Musk Anousha Sakoui / Los Angeles Times : What to know about Parler, the right-wing platform that Ye plans to buy Sara Fischer / Axios : Rich conservatives fund new media universe Ryan Browne / CNBC : Kanye West, who now goes by Ye, agrees to buy conservative social media platform Parler, company says Sebastian Moss / DCD : Kanye West to buy social media platform Parler Mawunyo Gbogbo / ABC : Kanye West's bid to buy conservative platform Parler an ‘expensive vanity project’, analysts say Jody Serrano / Gizmodo : Elon Musk Tweets Then Deletes Dragon Ball Z Meme With His Pal Kanye West Mat Smith / Engadget : The Morning After: Kanye West is buying ‘free speech’ app Parler Nitish Pahwa / Slate : Kanye West's Business Empire Isn't Doing So G.O.O.D. Marek Šulik / Marš! : Sú cenové akcie marketingovou drogou? Ibukun Ogundare / Coinspeaker : Ye, Formerly Known as Kanye West, Moves to Buy Parler after Twitter and Instagram Blocked His Accounts Hamid Ganji / Android Headlines : Kanye West Wants To Acquire Parler, A Social Media NetworkLisa De Pasquale / BRIGHT : The New Billionaire Flex — The New Billionaire Flex — Musk has Twitter. Trump has Truth Social. Sounak Mukhopadhyay / Livemint : Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, to acquire this social media platform Luc Olinga / TheStreet : Elon Musk Floats Alliance with Kanye West. Then Backtracks Scott Bicheno / Telecoms.com : Ye and Parler have a parley Lois Sakany / Snobette News : Balenciaga Quietly Quits Yeezy, Ye Purchases Mid Parler Social Media Site, ‘Drink Champs’ Removes Ye Interview Brian Fagioli / BetaNews : Rapper Kanye West plans to buy Parler Derek Saul / Forbes : Kanye Says He Wants Trump To Join Parler—Sending Trump's Truth Social SPAC Tumbling Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today : Kanye West is Buying Conservative Social Media Platform Parler to Voice His Unfiltered Opinions Aja Romano / Vox : What's going on with Kanye West, from fake kids to antisemitism Tweets: Sara Fischer / @sarafischer : NEW @Axios: Ye, formerly Kanye West, plans to acquire Parler Big picture: Conservatives really starting to build alternate media universe — Elon is buying Twitter — Trump building his own platform — Peter Thiel and J.D. Vance are funding Rumble https://www.axios.com/... Bobby Allyn / @bobbyallyn : Wow OK: Kanye is acquiring Parler to take “a bold stance against his recent censorship from Big Tech.” Company says his purchase “will assure Parler a future role in creating an uncancelable ecosystem” https://twitter.com/... Elon Musk / @elonmusk : https://twitter.com/... Elon Musk / @elonmusk : Fun times ahead!! Mike Rothschild / @rothschildmd : Parler is a corpse, its 15 minutes of post-January 6th fame having long since elapsed. Kanye would be better off just setting his money on fire. https://twitter.com/... Anthony DeRosa / @anthony : Parler Chief Executive George Farmer said discussions with Kayne West of a deal for Parler began casually when his wife Candace Owens attended Mr. West's fashion show in Paris. Owens and Kanye both wore a “White Lives Matter” shirt at the event https://www.wsj.com/... Ritchie Torres / @ritchietorres : The CEO of Parler is the husband of Candace Owens, who has become an apologist for Kanye's Antisemitism. Coincidence? https://twitter.com/... @pixelatedboat : This app is about to get the worst UI redesign of all time https://twitter.com/... Kenn White / @kennwhite : “Ye seemed to have joined Parler on Monday and had about 91 followers at the time of the announcement.” https://twitter.com/... @om : Are you really a rockstar (or a billionaire/space cowboy) if you have not bought your own social network? Quentin Hardy / @qhardy : Thirty minutes of “Ye is buying Parler!” has more attention than Parler itself will get in a month. Donie O'Sullivan / @donie : Context: Kanye West is said to be buying Parler (I'll believe it when I see it). https://www.cnn.com/... Shauna / @goldengateblond : almost no stories about this dumb “acquisition” have bothered to mention this and it's kinda important. basically these people are exploiting a disturbed man for his money. https://twitter.com/... Cenk Uygur / @cenkuygur : That's a lot of money to spend just to be able to say hateful things. The problem is that it's still worth it for these folks, because that's how valuable their hate is to them. https://twitter.com/... Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__ : All of these sites — Parler, TruthSocial, Gettr (remember that?) — are used in identical ways: to read about election denial and ragebait about trans kids. Picking which one you use is like choosing Nike or Adidas. They all do the same thing, and they even have the same colors. Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__ : The bottom line is that MAGA social media is incredibly diffuse and people just use whatever they think is closer to their political identity. Trump diehards are on TruthSocial. Edgelords are on the chans/Gab. Q people are on Telegram. TheDonald is an aggregator for all of them. Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__ : Here's a really good example: This site is for January 6th deniers who want rioters released from jail and pardoned. Those seven things that look like broken links at the bottom? They're all MAGA-centric social platforms. Parler is second-last, next to some site called Spreely. https://twitter.com/... Molly Conger / @socialistdogmom : congratulations to candace owens on accomplishing her twin goals of getting unlimited attention & helping her husband dump that money pit/litigation magnet of a website https://twitter.com/... @nxthompson : Parler's user base is declining; it's losing in its niche to Truth Social; and, assuming Elon ends up with Twitter, much of the reason for its existence goes away. What is the best business argument for why @kanyewest is buying it? Mike Lobikis / @mlfromdeep : Kanye thought he was grifting and now he's buying a piece of garbage from more sophisticated grifters. Hate to see it. https://twitter.com/... Paris Martineau / @parismartineau : this tweet is about social media execs now https://twitter.com/... Drew Olanoff / @yoda : Clearly Kanye has nobody around him looking out for his best interests. He's getting scammed out of a ton of cash to buy Candace Owens' husband's worthless company. Evil. Peter W. Singer / @peterwsinger : Lol, they both so deserve each other... https://twitter.com/... @nycsouthpaw : It seems to me that the diagnoses from afar of a ‘mental health crisis’ underrate the possibility ye's antisemitic outbursts are part of a cynical strategy to cement a place for himself in far right politics. https://twitter.com/... @mattnegrin : Something a little dystopian about the most widely read newspaper in the country describing an app used to amplify Sandy Hook conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers as a “libertarian-leaning social network popular with conservatives” when it's objectively a hive of misinformation https://twitter.com/... Ernie Smith / @shortformernie : @CaseyNewton I feel like something so stupid is going to happen that it's going to change social media forever Keith Edwards / @keithedwards : imagine having opinions so shitty you have to literally spend billions so you can have an audience https://twitter.com/... Laurie Voss / @seldo : You know what, this is great, give every annoying celebrity their own social network where they leave us alone. https://www.theverge.com/... Jared Holt / @jaredlholt : Baffling that so many news stories about the acquisition are missing this context. This is why the news desk needs to talk to its beat reporters for these stories! The headline is that Owens used her friendship with Kanye to offload a dying platform. Not another celeb tech buy! Adam Milstein / @adammilstein : Running out of social media platforms and mainstream news outlets to express his longtime inflammatory antisemitic views, Kanye West @kanyewest is buying social media @parler_app https://www.cnbc.com/... Dave Rubin / @rubinreport : Well now we know why Kanye was intentionally trying to get himself banned from Twitter last week. People think it's all a combo of creative genius / mental health with him, but it's actually quite calculating and intentional. https://twitter.com/... @dashdobrofsky : Kanye West makes a slew of Anti-Semitic statements, then agrees to purchase a far-right website. https://www.cnbc.com/... Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias : Just to be clear, we are explicitly talking now about creating a platform for the spread of anti-semitic conspiracy theories. https://twitter.com/... Jordan Fischer / @jordanonrecord : Seems like mostly a move to help his friend Candace Owens, whose husband is the CEO of the flagging platform, but with his purchase Kanye also gets one of the largest collections of Jan. 6 footage outside the federal government. https://twitter.com/... Casey Newton / @caseynewton : If this goes as badly as I assume it will, we will all be reading stories about Delaware Chancery Court well into next year https://twitter.com/... Mike Masnick / @mmasnick : Make sure the merger agreement includes a specific performance clause, guys. https://www.prnewswire.com/... Jules Terpak / @julesterpak : Kanye makes rash decisions and then acts like he made a profound discovery months or years later, when shit was obvious if he did a bit of deep diving at the time After 1-2 years of working on Parler, he'll do a spiel on how he diDn'T uNdeRsTaNd the nuances of content moderation @jeffontheright : I forgot about that! https://twitter.com/... Alex Howard / @digiphile : Ye (@KanyeWest) buying Parler could be a helluva exit for founders. Or not. Re: “free speech,” reminder that Parler moderates a ton of content, & can't stop doing so, lest it host child porn, murder video, copyrighted material, etc: https://twitter.com/... Will @Twitter go “alt”? https://twitter.com/... Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel : guess we are just formally entering the era where social networks are all just going to revolve around the personalities of their various unstable celebrity owners https://twitter.com/... @mediaite : Parler CEO Defends Kanye as Cancellation ‘Victim’ Before Suggesting Rapper's Anti-Semitism is ‘Up for Conversation’ https://www.mediaite.com/... James Ball / @jamesrbuk : Given his recent turn toward the most blatant of antisemitism, hard to see how this would be remotely consistent with Parler staying on any of the app stores. https://twitter.com/... David Rothschild / @davmicrot : Ridiculous how comfortable mainstream media is using “conservative” in place where they mean “antisemitic” and/or “racist” https://twitter.com/... Don Moynihan / @donmoyn : Mentally ill rich man swindled by grifter family https://twitter.com/... Justin Ling / @justin_ling : At present, <10% of Americans rely on Parler, Gab, Rumble, Truth Social for their news. Yet they've attracted huge amounts of investment, all while being paranoid hubs of unbridled conspiracy theories. https://www.bugeyedandshameless.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... Chris Messina / @chrismessina : 👀 Ye buys @parler_app for $54.20. Total. That convo with Elon really did have an impact! https://www.prnewswire.com/... Philip Bump / @pbump : The rare tweet that explains everything succinctly. https://twitter.com/... Sonny Bunch / @sonnybunch : Huh, kinda figured Kanye would be more of a Gab guy at this point. https://twitter.com/... Hamilton Nolan / @hamiltonnolan : Big picture: conservatives built their alternate media universe a long time ago. This is a grift by people who see an easy chance to grab the dumb money https://twitter.com/... Meridith McGraw / @meridithmcgraw : Candace Owens husband George Farmer is the CEO of Parler https://twitter.com/... Jeremy Littau / @jeremylittau : That the middlingest of the middling conservative temper tantrum apps was for sale at all tells you all you need to know. Cashing out 12 days before Elon's purchase is supposed to close (and Trump's return to Twitter inevitably follows). Grifters found their mark in Ye. https://twitter.com/... Elizabeth Spiers / @espiers : Parler, lol. Did he buy it for, like, $4? https://twitter.com/... Josh Barro / @jbarro : Is it ethical to sell your company to someone who's clearly insane? https://twitter.com/... Cristiano Lima / @viacristiano : When @WillOremus & I wrote that the Kanye West antisemitic post flap could be a preview of social media's future, I didn't think that future would be *the next week* https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... David Pierce / @pierce : Here's a super hot and out-there take for your Monday morning: this isn't gonna happen https://twitter.com/... Ryan Nanni / @celebrityhottub : college football message boards are already an uncancelable ecosystem https://twitter.com/... Casilli / @antoniocasilli : First Trump, then Musk, now Kanye. The trend seems to be for rich bigots to acquire their own social media platform while whining about free speech and wokeism. https://www.theverge.com/... Molly Jong-Fast / @mollyjongfast : Congratulations Kanye West on inventing 4chan https://www.theverge.com/... Jacob Silverman / @silvermanjacob : I would've expected Gab. https://twitter.com/... @william_partin : not sure i can think of a faster way to unbecome a billionaire https://twitter.com/... @destroyed4com4t : Isn't Parler just another right-wing Mastodon instance? Seems like it would work out better for Kanye to spend that money to make yet another right-wing Mastodon instance and market that as “the REALLY real free speech social media.” But sure let him go bankrupt himself on this. https://twitter.com/... Ariel Bogle / @arielbogle : hope his followers enjoy a truly janky app experience and a lot of crypto bots! https://twitter.com/... Alex Hern / @alexhern : A fun blending of two stories: George Farmer, the CEO of Parler, is the son of Michael Farmer, the Brexiteer Lord who is currently trying to get the government to adopt “family-strengthening policies” because they're “important for economic growth” https://www.theguardian.com/ ... @martinsfp : Okayyy... A bargain basement version of the Musk-Twitter deal. https://twitter.com/... @pressgazette : Kanye West, whose Twitter and Instagram accounts were locked last week over offensive posts, is buying “uncancellable free speech platform” Parler. The deal is expected to close in Q4 https://www.prnewswire.com/... See also Mediagazer
NEW @Axios: Ye, formerly Kanye West, plans to acquire Parler Big picture: Conservatives really starting to build alternate media universe — Elon is buying Twitter — Trump building his own platform — Peter Thiel and J.D. Vance are funding Rumble https://www.axios.com/...
Wow OK: Kanye is acquiring Parler to take “a bold stance against his recent censorship from Big Tech.” Company says his purchase “will assure Parler a future role in creating an uncancelable ecosystem” https://twitter.com/...
Parler is a corpse, its 15 minutes of post-January 6th fame having long since elapsed. Kanye would be better off just setting his money on fire. https://twitter.com/...
Parler Chief Executive George Farmer said discussions with Kayne West of a deal for Parler began casually when his wife Candace Owens attended Mr. West's fashion show in Paris. Owens and Kanye both wore a “White Lives Matter” shirt at the event https://www.wsj.com/...
almost no stories about this dumb “acquisition” have bothered to mention this and it's kinda important. basically these people are exploiting a disturbed man for his money. https://twitter.com/...
That's a lot of money to spend just to be able to say hateful things. The problem is that it's still worth it for these folks, because that's how valuable their hate is to them. https://twitter.com/...
All of these sites — Parler, TruthSocial, Gettr (remember that?) — are used in identical ways: to read about election denial and ragebait about trans kids. Picking which one you use is like choosing Nike or Adidas. They all do the same thing, and they even have the same colors.
The bottom line is that MAGA social media is incredibly diffuse and people just use whatever they think is closer to their political identity. Trump diehards are on TruthSocial. Edgelords are on the chans/Gab. Q people are on Telegram. TheDonald is an aggregator for all of them.
Here's a really good example: This site is for January 6th deniers who want rioters released from jail and pardoned. Those seven things that look like broken links at the bottom? They're all MAGA-centric social platforms. Parler is second-last, next to some site called Spreely. h…
congratulations to candace owens on accomplishing her twin goals of getting unlimited attention & helping her husband dump that money pit/litigation magnet of a website https://twitter.com/...
Parler's user base is declining; it's losing in its niche to Truth Social; and, assuming Elon ends up with Twitter, much of the reason for its existence goes away. What is the best business argument for why @kanyewest is buying it?
Clearly Kanye has nobody around him looking out for his best interests. He's getting scammed out of a ton of cash to buy Candace Owens' husband's worthless company. Evil.
It seems to me that the diagnoses from afar of a ‘mental health crisis’ underrate the possibility ye's antisemitic outbursts are part of a cynical strategy to cement a place for himself in far right politics. https://twitter.com/...
Something a little dystopian about the most widely read newspaper in the country describing an app used to amplify Sandy Hook conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers as a “libertarian-leaning social network popular with conservatives” when it's objectively a hive of misinformation …
Baffling that so many news stories about the acquisition are missing this context. This is why the news desk needs to talk to its beat reporters for these stories! The headline is that Owens used her friendship with Kanye to offload a dying platform. Not another celeb tech buy!
Running out of social media platforms and mainstream news outlets to express his longtime inflammatory antisemitic views, Kanye West @kanyewest is buying social media @parler_app https://www.cnbc.com/...
Well now we know why Kanye was intentionally trying to get himself banned from Twitter last week. People think it's all a combo of creative genius / mental health with him, but it's actually quite calculating and intentional. https://twitter.com/...
Seems like mostly a move to help his friend Candace Owens, whose husband is the CEO of the flagging platform, but with his purchase Kanye also gets one of the largest collections of Jan. 6 footage outside the federal government. https://twitter.com/...
Kanye makes rash decisions and then acts like he made a profound discovery months or years later, when shit was obvious if he did a bit of deep diving at the time After 1-2 years of working on Parler, he'll do a spiel on how he diDn'T uNdeRsTaNd the nuances of content moderation
Ye (@KanyeWest) buying Parler could be a helluva exit for founders. Or not. Re: “free speech,” reminder that Parler moderates a ton of content, & can't stop doing so, lest it host child porn, murder video, copyrighted material, etc: https://twitter.com/... Will @Twitter go “alt”?…
guess we are just formally entering the era where social networks are all just going to revolve around the personalities of their various unstable celebrity owners https://twitter.com/...
Given his recent turn toward the most blatant of antisemitism, hard to see how this would be remotely consistent with Parler staying on any of the app stores. https://twitter.com/...
At present, <10% of Americans rely on Parler, Gab, Rumble, Truth Social for their news. Yet they've attracted huge amounts of investment, all while being paranoid hubs of unbridled conspiracy theories. https://www.bugeyedandshameless.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Big picture: conservatives built their alternate media universe a long time ago. This is a grift by people who see an easy chance to grab the dumb money https://twitter.com/...
That the middlingest of the middling conservative temper tantrum apps was for sale at all tells you all you need to know. Cashing out 12 days before Elon's purchase is supposed to close (and Trump's return to Twitter inevitably follows). Grifters found their mark in Ye. https://t…
When @WillOremus & I wrote that the Kanye West antisemitic post flap could be a preview of social media's future, I didn't think that future would be *the next week* https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
First Trump, then Musk, now Kanye. The trend seems to be for rich bigots to acquire their own social media platform while whining about free speech and wokeism. https://www.theverge.com/...
Isn't Parler just another right-wing Mastodon instance? Seems like it would work out better for Kanye to spend that money to make yet another right-wing Mastodon instance and market that as “the REALLY real free speech social media.” But sure let him go bankrupt himself on this. …
A fun blending of two stories: George Farmer, the CEO of Parler, is the son of Michael Farmer, the Brexiteer Lord who is currently trying to get the government to adopt “family-strengthening policies” because they're “important for economic growth” https://www.theguardian.com/ ..…
Kanye West, whose Twitter and Instagram accounts were locked last week over offensive posts, is buying “uncancellable free speech platform” Parler. The deal is expected to close in Q4 https://www.prnewswire.com/...
“This deal will change the world, and change the way the world thinks about free speech. Ye is making a groundbreaking move into the free speech media space and will never have to fear being removed from social media again.” https://www.imore.com/...
“If I had a nickel every time a free-speech obsessed billionaire wanted to buy a social media platform, I would have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's funny that it happened twice” https://twitter.com/...