On Monday, Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, agreed to purchase Parler, the social media platform popular among conservatives and which launched in 2018. He had been attending fashion shows in Paris with conservative pundit Candace Owens, whose husband, George Farmer, is the CEO of Parler.
In an interview later that day, Ye said the Parler acquisition was motivated by his experience being “kicked off” Instagram and Twitter. In the two days since the news of the acquisition broke, Parler has seen four times as many new users sign up as it did in the preceding month.
“This transaction will get closed very quickly,” Levine (Parler COO) told Protocol on Wednesday. “There’s nothing to stand in the way of that except that, you know, we just to go through the process of assuring it’s done correctly.”
Source: Protocol