Kanye West has been removed from the lineup of artistes who will be performing at the Grammys. – Shutterstock: Social network Parler announced Monday a deal for Kanye West to buy the platform popular with US conservatives, just over a week after the rapper's Twitter and Instagram accounts were restricted over anti-Semitic posts.
Parler said West, who has an account on the network as of Monday, was “taking a bold stance against his recent censorship from Big Tech.” Earlier this year, West was banned from posting on Instagram for 24 hours after violating the social network's harassment policy amid his acrimonious divorce from reality star Kim Kardashian.
“Ye is making a groundbreaking move into the free speech media space and will never have to fear being removed from social media again,“ he said.Launched in 2018, Parler became a haven for Trump supporters and far-right users who say they have been censored on social media platforms. It has since signed up many more traditional Republican voices.
The network -- one of several in a crowded conservative social media marketplace -- claimed to have more than 20 million users before being pulled from Apple and Google.