“This decision was taken in mid-November in the interest of both parties,” the statement read. Last month it was announced that the American wanted to buy the platform. In a statement about the takeover, the 45-year-old rapper spoke of “the right to express ourselves.” The move followed after his accounts on Twitter and Instagram were locked after he posted anti-Semitic messages there.
Parler himself is also controversial. The American platform, especially popular with the far right, praises itself as the worldwide number 1 platform on which you can express your opinion without censorship or intervention. The app has previously been banned from Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store, among others. This happened after the storming of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. Trump supporters, among others, were allegedly called on to use violence during the storming.