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Kanye’s deal to buy Parler is OFF: Social media company confirms ‘mutual agreement’ to terminate sale, hours after rapper told Alex Jones ‘I love Hitler’
- Kanye West and Parler announced plans to sell the app in October
- But on Thursday, the platform’s parent company said the deal was off.
- The announcement came after West praised Hitler in an interview.
- But the company said the two broke up last month.
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The sale of Parler, a social media platform popular among conservatives, to Kanye West is called off, the app’s parent company announced Thursday.
Parlement Technologies said the company and Ye agreed to part ways in mid-November after the star agreed in principle to buy the platform a month earlier.
However, the announcement came after days of negative publicity and hours after West professed his love for Hitler during a deranged appearance on Alex Jones’ Infowars podcast.
It suggests that the West may be too much for even right-wing platforms that claim to be havens for free speech.
“Parlement Technologies has confirmed that the company has mutually agreed with Ye to end the intent to sell Parler,” the company said in a statement.
This decision was made in the interest of both parties in mid-November. Parler will continue to look for future growth opportunities and the evolution of the platform for our vibrant community.”
Kanye West had reached an agreement to buy Parler in October. On Thursday, the company said there was no deal, shortly after the rapper praised Hitler in an interview.
Parler issued a statement and tweet to say the deal was dropped last month.
Parler is run by the husband of conservative commentator Candace Owens, George Farmer.
It has pitched the platform as a haven for users locked out of other social media apps like Twitter, including West.
When details of the deal initially emerged, he defended the rapper.
Farmer claimed the rapper was a “victim” of the cancellation, in an interview with Fox News, though he stopped short of defending the tweet that banned West.
‘I’m a little sleepy tonight, but when I wake up I’m going crazy 3 On the JEWISH PEOPLE The funny thing is that I can’t really be anti-Semitic because black people are Jews too. You have played with me and you have tried. to blackball anyone who opposes his agenda,’ the tweet read.
On Thursday, West went further in an interview with Jones.
Wearing a cloth mask to cover his entire face, West ranted: “I see good things about Hitler…every human being has something of value that they brought to the table, especially Hitler.”
Later, he said that the Germans “had a really good leader at one point” and denied that Hitler had ordered the death of 6 million Jews.
‘He did not kill 6 million Jews. That is factually incorrect,” West said in what were, to some extent, his most anti-Semitic comments of his to date.
‘I’m not trying to be shocking. I like Hitler. The Holocaust is not what happened…Hitler has many redeeming qualities,’ he said.
Even Jones, no stranger to controversy, seemed visibly uncomfortable at times during the three-hour broadcast.
Kanye West (left) appears on Alex Jones’ Infowars podcast Thursday with white supremacist Nick Fuentes. Kanye, who now goes by ‘Ye’, said he ‘likes Hitler’ and that he ‘brought courage’
West made the inflammatory comments during an appearance on Alex Jones’ Infowars podcast, where he also called Jared Kushner a “Zionist” and encouraged people to visit convicted sex offenders Harvey Weinstein and R. Kelly in prison.
West sat next to Jones, a bible placed in front of him. At times, he would hold what looked like a fishing net and wrestle with a Snapple bottle.
He encouraged Kanye to remove his mask and repeatedly asked him what time his flight was, insisting that he doesn’t like Hitler.
However, he also tried to downplay the growing live reaction, saying critics were trying to ‘censor’ the rapper, and celebrated the fact that it was his most-watched stream of 2022.
During the show, the House Judiciary Committee removed an old tweet that praised West and said “enough is enough.”
West staged a fake conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nentanyahu, discussed his divorce from Kim Kardashian and his return to alcohol and ‘threesomes’ afterward, and referred to the 2024 presidential campaign as a ‘walk to the bottom’. [White] House.’
He also made repeated references to Hollywood agent Ari Emanuel, who is also Jewish, claiming he tried to “ruin his life” and goading him with anti-Semitic remarks.