Parler, the social media site that once was a safe haven for right-wing bigots, has been temporarily shut down. A digital media company called Starboard purchased the platform and has shuttered it for remodeling, though a message on the website still describes Parler as “the world’s pioneering uncancelable free speech platform.” The company, which says the platform is now undergoing a “strategic assessment,” did not disclose how much it paid for the platform but said the deal would be “accretive” (worth more in value) by the end of Q2 this year.
- 4/14/2023
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
An analysis of Comscore Media data by The Righting has found that right-wing alternative social media platform Parler suffered a 48-percent decline in unique visitors this September compared to September a year ago. The floundering platform recently announced a pending acquisition by rapper Kanye West.
Other right-wing platforms and websites have also experienced a significant slump in user traffic. Breitbart’s traffic is down 58 percent, The Federalist is down 60 percent, and the Blaze is down 55 percent. Virtually every right-wing website examined by The Righting lost unique visitors year-over-year, with the...
Other right-wing platforms and websites have also experienced a significant slump in user traffic. Breitbart’s traffic is down 58 percent, The Federalist is down 60 percent, and the Blaze is down 55 percent. Virtually every right-wing website examined by The Righting lost unique visitors year-over-year, with the...
- 10/25/2022
- by Nikki McCann Ramirez
- Rollingstone.com
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Amid calls to cut ties with Kanye “Ye” West over his repeated antisemitic comments, CAA stopped representing the artist within the last month, a source tells The Hollywood Reporter.
The Century City-based talent agency had worked with the artist, but his espousing antisemitic rhetoric in multiple recent interviews has proved indefensible to some business partners. With CAA ending its run with West, Hollywood’s major talent agencies — including WME and UTA — have supported calls to end working relationship with the rapper and fashion mogul.
On Oct. 23, Jeremy Zimmer, who leads rival agency UTA, sent a companywide email titled “Rise of Anti Semitism and Hate,” writing that West’s comments “embolden others to amplify their vile beliefs.” The UTA CEO added: “We can’t support hate speech, bigotry or anti-Semitism. Please support the boycott of Kanye West.”
Days earlier, Endeavor and WME mogul Ari Emanuel...
Amid calls to cut ties with Kanye “Ye” West over his repeated antisemitic comments, CAA stopped representing the artist within the last month, a source tells The Hollywood Reporter.
The Century City-based talent agency had worked with the artist, but his espousing antisemitic rhetoric in multiple recent interviews has proved indefensible to some business partners. With CAA ending its run with West, Hollywood’s major talent agencies — including WME and UTA — have supported calls to end working relationship with the rapper and fashion mogul.
On Oct. 23, Jeremy Zimmer, who leads rival agency UTA, sent a companywide email titled “Rise of Anti Semitism and Hate,” writing that West’s comments “embolden others to amplify their vile beliefs.” The UTA CEO added: “We can’t support hate speech, bigotry or anti-Semitism. Please support the boycott of Kanye West.”
Days earlier, Endeavor and WME mogul Ari Emanuel...
- 10/24/2022
- by Erik Hayden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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Three of Hollywood’s top agency chiefs are now calling on the entertainment industry to cut ties with Kanye West given the rapper and fashion mogul’s anti-Semitic rhetoric on multiple platforms and interviews.
On Sunday evening, UTA chief Jeremy Zimmer sent a company-wide memo to staff titled “Rise of Anti Semitism and Hate,” writing that West’s comments “embolden others to amplify their vile beliefs.”
Zimmer made reference to a widely circulated Oct. 23 photo of a group of seven people who stood on a 405 freeway overpass in Los Angeles with signs that included “Kanye is right about the Jews,” as well as The Mapping Project, an anonymous effort that purported to show links between Jewish businesses in Massachusetts and “support for the colonization of Palestine.”
“Whether it’s signs on the 405 in Los Angeles, flyers on doorsteps, mapping Jewish businesses in Boston,...
Three of Hollywood’s top agency chiefs are now calling on the entertainment industry to cut ties with Kanye West given the rapper and fashion mogul’s anti-Semitic rhetoric on multiple platforms and interviews.
On Sunday evening, UTA chief Jeremy Zimmer sent a company-wide memo to staff titled “Rise of Anti Semitism and Hate,” writing that West’s comments “embolden others to amplify their vile beliefs.”
Zimmer made reference to a widely circulated Oct. 23 photo of a group of seven people who stood on a 405 freeway overpass in Los Angeles with signs that included “Kanye is right about the Jews,” as well as The Mapping Project, an anonymous effort that purported to show links between Jewish businesses in Massachusetts and “support for the colonization of Palestine.”
“Whether it’s signs on the 405 in Los Angeles, flyers on doorsteps, mapping Jewish businesses in Boston,...
- 10/24/2022
- by Erik Hayden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Kanye West is facing a 250 million lawsuit from George Floyd’s family.
The potential suit follows West’s comments on a “Drink Champs” episode since removed from YouTube, in which West defamed Floyd, falsely saying he died of a fentanyl overdose instead of being murdered by Minneapolis police officers. The cause of death was formally listed as homicide. Former cop Derek Chauvin was convicted in Floyd’s death and is currently serving a 22-year sentence.
Per the press release, Roxie Washington, acting on behalf of her minor child (who is the sole beneficiary of Floyd’s estate), had retained the Witherspoon Law Group and Dixon & Dixon Attorneys at Law to file the suit against West. The suit lists Floyd’s daughter, represented jointly by the two firms, seeking 250 million in damages.
The filing would not only be against West but also his “business partners and associates” amid false claims leading to “harassment,...
The potential suit follows West’s comments on a “Drink Champs” episode since removed from YouTube, in which West defamed Floyd, falsely saying he died of a fentanyl overdose instead of being murdered by Minneapolis police officers. The cause of death was formally listed as homicide. Former cop Derek Chauvin was convicted in Floyd’s death and is currently serving a 22-year sentence.
Per the press release, Roxie Washington, acting on behalf of her minor child (who is the sole beneficiary of Floyd’s estate), had retained the Witherspoon Law Group and Dixon & Dixon Attorneys at Law to file the suit against West. The suit lists Floyd’s daughter, represented jointly by the two firms, seeking 250 million in damages.
The filing would not only be against West but also his “business partners and associates” amid false claims leading to “harassment,...
- 10/18/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Kanye ‘Ye’ West has inked a deal with Parlement Technologies to buy Parler, the extreme right-wing copycat of Twitter that was started to “fight against Big Tech, Big Government, censorship and cancel culture,” reports ‘Variety’.
Parler, founded in 2018, and banned by both Apple and Google’s play stores after the January 6 Capitol Hill riots in the U.S., has been described as an American alt-tech microblogging and social networking service associated with Donald Trump supporters, conservatives, conspiracy theorists, and far-right extremists.
Posts on the service usually contain far-right content, anti-Semitic rants, and conspiracy theories such as those floated by QAnon.
West’s move to acquire Parler comes after Twitter and Instagram restricted the music artiste and entrepreneur’s accounts earlier this month because he posted anti-Semitic comments, according to ‘Variety’.
Terms of West’s proposed deal for Parler were not disclosed. In a statement, West and Parlement said: “Ye has...
Parler, founded in 2018, and banned by both Apple and Google’s play stores after the January 6 Capitol Hill riots in the U.S., has been described as an American alt-tech microblogging and social networking service associated with Donald Trump supporters, conservatives, conspiracy theorists, and far-right extremists.
Posts on the service usually contain far-right content, anti-Semitic rants, and conspiracy theories such as those floated by QAnon.
West’s move to acquire Parler comes after Twitter and Instagram restricted the music artiste and entrepreneur’s accounts earlier this month because he posted anti-Semitic comments, according to ‘Variety’.
Terms of West’s proposed deal for Parler were not disclosed. In a statement, West and Parlement said: “Ye has...
- 10/17/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
Just days after spouting more antisemitic comments and spreading debunked claims about George Floyd’s death, Kanye West is further leaning into the world of conservatism by reportedly agreeing to buy the right-wing social media platform Parler.
Parler’s parent company, Parlement Technologies, announced that Ye had agreed in principle to purchase Parler. The platform launched in 2018, touting itself as a “free speech” social media app for those sick of supposed censorship on mainstream platforms (or, in other words, folks who needed a place to post stuff that would likely get them booted from Twitter,...
Parler’s parent company, Parlement Technologies, announced that Ye had agreed in principle to purchase Parler. The platform launched in 2018, touting itself as a “free speech” social media app for those sick of supposed censorship on mainstream platforms (or, in other words, folks who needed a place to post stuff that would likely get them booted from Twitter,...
- 10/17/2022
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
After being blocked by major social media platforms, Ye is buying his own.
On Monday, Parlement Technologies announced that they had signed a deal with Kanye West for the rapper to buy the right-wing social media app Parler.
Read More: Kanye West Locked Out Of Twitter Following Anti-Semitic Tweet And Instagram Account Restriction
The app was originally created to “fight against Big Tech, Big Government, censorship and cancel culture,” and West’s move comes after a string of anti-semitic posts and statements led Twitter and Instagram to lock his accounts.
“Ye has become the richest Black man in history through music and apparel and is taking a bold stance against his recent censorship from Big Tech, using his far-reaching talents to further lead the fight to create a truly non-cancelable environment,” West and Parlement said in a joint statement to Variety.
West added, “In a world where conservative opinions are...
On Monday, Parlement Technologies announced that they had signed a deal with Kanye West for the rapper to buy the right-wing social media app Parler.
Read More: Kanye West Locked Out Of Twitter Following Anti-Semitic Tweet And Instagram Account Restriction
The app was originally created to “fight against Big Tech, Big Government, censorship and cancel culture,” and West’s move comes after a string of anti-semitic posts and statements led Twitter and Instagram to lock his accounts.
“Ye has become the richest Black man in history through music and apparel and is taking a bold stance against his recent censorship from Big Tech, using his far-reaching talents to further lead the fight to create a truly non-cancelable environment,” West and Parlement said in a joint statement to Variety.
West added, “In a world where conservative opinions are...
- 10/17/2022
- by Corey Atad
- ET Canada
Grammy winner Kanye West is confirmed to be purchasing conservative social media platform Parler.
The parent company for the platform, Parlement Technologies, confirmed that the star is currently in talks to take over the app. While terms of the deal were not disclosed, Parlement issued a statement that “the proposed acquisition will assure Parler a future role in creating an uncancelable ecosystem where all voices are welcome.”
The statement added that both parties “intend to enter into a definitive purchase agreement” and expect to close the deal in the fourth quarter of 2022. The proposed buyout would include Parlement continuing to offer the “use of private cloud services via Parlement’s private cloud and data center infrastructure.”
Parler CEO George Farmer said, “This deal will change the world, and change the way the world thinks about free speech. Ye is making a groundbreaking move into the free speech media space and...
The parent company for the platform, Parlement Technologies, confirmed that the star is currently in talks to take over the app. While terms of the deal were not disclosed, Parlement issued a statement that “the proposed acquisition will assure Parler a future role in creating an uncancelable ecosystem where all voices are welcome.”
The statement added that both parties “intend to enter into a definitive purchase agreement” and expect to close the deal in the fourth quarter of 2022. The proposed buyout would include Parlement continuing to offer the “use of private cloud services via Parlement’s private cloud and data center infrastructure.”
Parler CEO George Farmer said, “This deal will change the world, and change the way the world thinks about free speech. Ye is making a groundbreaking move into the free speech media space and...
- 10/17/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Controversial rapper Kanye West, who now goes by Ye, is acquiring right-wing social network Parler.
The deal “ensures Parler a future role in creating an uncancelable ecosystem where all voices are welcome,” the company said in an announcement.
Parler is among a handful of right-leaning social platforms to enter the market during and after Donald Trump’s presidency. After the assault on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, when Trump and many of his supporters were banned by Twitter, Parler was scrutinized for its role in the events of the day. Large tech providers, including Google and Apple, deplatformed Parler but have recently restored the app to their app stores.
Financial terms were not divulged. Parler recently said it raised 56 million in venture funding.
“This deal will change the world, and change the way the world thinks about free speech,” Parler CEO George Farmer said. “Ye is making a groundbreaking...
The deal “ensures Parler a future role in creating an uncancelable ecosystem where all voices are welcome,” the company said in an announcement.
Parler is among a handful of right-leaning social platforms to enter the market during and after Donald Trump’s presidency. After the assault on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, when Trump and many of his supporters were banned by Twitter, Parler was scrutinized for its role in the events of the day. Large tech providers, including Google and Apple, deplatformed Parler but have recently restored the app to their app stores.
Financial terms were not divulged. Parler recently said it raised 56 million in venture funding.
“This deal will change the world, and change the way the world thinks about free speech,” Parler CEO George Farmer said. “Ye is making a groundbreaking...
- 10/17/2022
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
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Parlement Technologies, parent of Parler, the Conservative social media platform, says Kanye “Ye” West has agreed to buy the company.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the parent company in a statement insisted “the proposed acquisition will assure Parler a future role in creating an uncancelable ecosystem where all voices are welcome.”
West’s proposed deal to take over Parler was welcomed by CEO George Farmer, husband of conservative pundit Candace Owens. “Ye is making a groundbreaking move into the free speech media space and will never have to fear being removed from social media again. Once again, Ye proves that he is one step ahead of the legacy media narrative. Parlement will be honored to help him achieve his goals,” Farmer said in a statement.
Under the tentative agreement in principle, the parties “intend to enter into a definitive purchase...
Parlement Technologies, parent of Parler, the Conservative social media platform, says Kanye “Ye” West has agreed to buy the company.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the parent company in a statement insisted “the proposed acquisition will assure Parler a future role in creating an uncancelable ecosystem where all voices are welcome.”
West’s proposed deal to take over Parler was welcomed by CEO George Farmer, husband of conservative pundit Candace Owens. “Ye is making a groundbreaking move into the free speech media space and will never have to fear being removed from social media again. Once again, Ye proves that he is one step ahead of the legacy media narrative. Parlement will be honored to help him achieve his goals,” Farmer said in a statement.
Under the tentative agreement in principle, the parties “intend to enter into a definitive purchase...
- 10/17/2022
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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