New York CNN Business —After being locked out of his Twitter and Instagram accounts for anti-semitic posts, Monday’s announcement Kanye West will buy the far-right social platform Parler for an undisclosed amount drove headlines.
As of press time, the music icon had just 10,000 followers on the platform — a tiny sliver of the 31 million followers he has amassed on Twitter.
(By comparison Twitter, also a small social platform compared to giants like Meta, has more than 237 million daily active users.)
In truth, West did not even agree to purchase a “conservative social media platform,” as many headlines in the press would have led readers to believe.
What he agreed to purchase is a platform with an embarrassingly small user base comprised of far-right extremists and racists.