American rapper Kanye West, who now goes by the name of Ye, has proposed to buy Parler, the social media platform popular among US conservatives, days after being booted off Twitter and Instagram over anti-Semitic posts.Nashville-based Parler, which has raised about $56m to date, said on Monday it expects the deal to close during the fourth quarter of 2022. Parent Parlement Technologies did not give a deal value.The deal comes as Parler, launched in 2018 and styled itself as a free-speech space for those seeking an alternative to platforms such as Twitter Inc, has been reinstated on Google and Apple Inc’s app stores after being removed following the US capitol riots in January 2021.
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