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Kanye West buys Parler after his social media accounts were locked

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Kanye West has agreed to buy Parler, the social media service that promotes itself as the “premiere global free speech platform”, though critics see it more as the place online where people can share outrageous, usually right-wing opinions without the risk of being filtered or banned.As you may have noticed, West has been spouting ever increasing amounts of nonsense of late.

Some of it is offensive, some of it is outrageous, and most of it is wrong. In fact, so prolific has West’s nonsense spouting been in recent weeks, we’ve stopped paying attention to him entirely.However, the machines at the big social media platforms that monitor for content that is offensive, abusive and/or misleading have carried on paying attention, resulting in the rapper’s Twitter and Instagram accounts being locked.

Meanwhile, the full and somewhat controversial interview he did with the Drink Champs podcast was removed from YouTube.Which is why West is suddenly a big fan of Parler, the social media service that usually allows through the kinds of racist and anti-semitic statements – and misinformation and conspiracy theories – that tend to get filtered or blocked on the mainstream platforms.Originally founded in 2018, Parler saw a big spike in popularity in 2020, especially among Trump supporters in the US who were angry about the filtering happening on Twitter and Facebook.

Though – like other companies that have set up social media services with minimal filtering – Parler’s avid userbase is much more niche when compared to the social media giants.Critics also reckon that, on the quiet, Parler does quite a lot of content filtering.

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