Parler CEO George Farmer appeared on Fox Business News to celebrate Kanye West’s acquisition of the right-wing social media platform, while defending the rapper saying he “fell victim to the cancellation narrative.” “Obviously he wants to have a conversation that a lot of people want to have and I think he’s trying to engage in the free speech environment,” said the app’s CEO and husband Candace Owens. “But I would like to say that he’s in a place where he’s fallen victim to the cancellation narrative.” The takeover by West, who is legally known as Ye, comes on the heels of George Floyd’s family hitting back at the rapper after he sparked fresh controversy over the weekend by claiming the 46-year-old black man died of fentanyl abuse and that the cop’s knee ” it wasn’t even in his neck like that.’ “While one cannot defame the dead, the family of #GeorgeFloyd is considering a lawsuit over Kanye’s false statements regarding the manner of his death,” a family lawyer tweeted Sunday. Ye’s behavior has been condemned far and wide, but Elon Musk seems keen to work with the rapper, hinting on Twitter that he’d like to see the social network partner with Parler.

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Debunking Kanye West’s False Claims About George Floyd

Kanye West has sparked fresh controversy by claiming that George Floyd died from fentanyl and that a police officer’s knee “wasn’t even on his neck like that”. Floyd, a black man, was killed in a standoff with police in Minneapolis in May 2020, with a video showing officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on his neck for nearly nine minutes. West made the claims in an appearance on the Drink Champs podcast on Saturday and made his comments while discussing Candace Owens’ documentary The Greatest Lie Ever Sold: George Floyd and the Rise of BLM. Read Graeme Massie’s full report.

Kanye West claims George Floyd’s killer didn’t really have a knee to his neck

The rapper made the claims in an appearance on the Drink Champs podcast Josh Marcus October 18, 2022 4:00 am 1666058406

Kanye West is back with another Pete Davidson rant

Kanye West has hit out at Kim Kardashian’s ‘heroine addict’ ex-boyfriend Pete Davidson and talk show host Trevor Noah in his latest crazy rant. The rapper made a series of disparaging comments during an appearance on the Drink Champs podcast on Saturday with rapper NORE and DJ EFN. And he even blamed “Jewish Zionists” for Kim Kardashian talking about sex with Davidson on an episode of her family’s Hulu reality TV show. West, who has been widely criticized for a series of anti-Semitic comments in the past week, defended himself on the podcast. Graeme Massie has the story. Josh Marcus October 18, 2022 3:00 am 1666054806

MAGA-style GOP politics ‘inevitably going to target Jews’, Chris Hayes argues amid Kanye-Trump feud

“This is no accident,” MSNBC’s Chris Hayes argued during a Monday monologue on his All In show. The host said the recent anti-Semitic controversies surrounding Donald Trump and Kanye West are a reminder that right-wing politics always finds a way to attack pluralism and tolerance, a strategy that all but “inevitably” results in people attacking Jews , given the deep history. of anti-Semitism in the US and beyond. “Right-wing politics, as currently embodied by MAGAism – which is the dominant ethos of one of America’s two major parties – has always been and always will be fundamentally a threat to tolerance and pluralism that will inevitably target Jews” , Mr. Hayes said. See more of his monologue. Josh Marcus October 18, 2022 02:00 am 1666053366

‘Boring’ and ‘disappointing’: What opinion pages say about Kanye West’s ‘fanaticism’

Except, obviously, Elon Musk, Kanye West’s recent anti-Semitic rants and attacks on George Floyd have been met with global outrage. As the Independent’s Noah Berlatsky argued in our Voices column, Ye’s “bigotry” is a sign of the current, deeply loathsome era of conservative politics, one that “shows that anti-Semitism is a central and inevitable consequence of the Republican Party’s embrace of . politics of division and intolerance”.

Kanye West’s anti-Semitism is part of a larger right-wing bigotry

The musician’s threat to the Jewish people is linked to his flirtation with white supremacy, his misogyny and his lipophobia In the Washington Post, Damon Young noted how for all of Ye’s claims to be a revolutionary provocateur, there is nothing revolutionary about siding with reactionary forces and hiding in the hatred that has been lurking in our culture for centuries. Mr. West’s views are “so honest, so common, so boring.” “There is nothing radical about anti-Blackness and nothing subversive about misogyny,” she adds. “Anti-Semitism is literally thousands of years old.” Meanwhile, over at Buzzfeed, Elamin Abdelmahmoud argues that Ye is deliberately inciting outrage just to get attention and enrich himself. “West is no longer an entertainer, but a multi-industry enterprise with a clear marketing strategy: provoke black people, aimlessly and endlessly, in order to draw attention to the newest product,” he writes. “With the White Lives Matter gimmick, West is once again manipulating black anger and black pain and using that momentum in the service of Ye Inc.” Josh Marcus October 18, 2022 01:36 1666051566

Fox News executives are looking for person who leaked the Kanye West video

During a recent high-profile appearance on Fox News, Kanye West made a series of anti-Semitic remarks that were edited out of the final broadcast, according to leaked footage.

Kanye West made anti-Semitic comments that were redacted from Carlson’s interview

Ye is currently banned from Twitter and Instagram for comments about Jews Now, network leaders are “freaking out” and hunting down the “mole” who shared the videos with the media, The Daily Beast reports. The conservative network has been known to crack down on leakers, firing associate producer Bill O’Reilly within 24 hours of the 2012 leak. “This new burglar learned from my mistakes,” Mr. Muto told The Daily Beast. “The main reason I got caught is that I wasn’t covering my digital path very well. They’re obviously doing a better job than I am, if they haven’t been found yet.” Josh Marcus October 18, 2022 01:06 1666050398

Kanye West is spreading false claims about how George Floyd died

Kanye West has ‘betrayed’ the Floyd family by making false claims about George Floyd.

George Floyd’s family may sue Kanye West for making false claims about his death:

The rapper claimed in a podcast over the weekend that Floyd died from the drug fentanyl during his 2020 arrest The controversial rapper appeared on a podcast last week and claimed the Minneapolis man died of drug use after videos, expert testimony and legal filings concluded that Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police in 2020. Here’s our report on what really happened to Mr. Floyd.

Pathologist rules out overdose as cause of George Floyd’s death during Chauvin trial

Dr. Lindsay Thomas, a pathologist from Minnesota, is the third medical examiner to testify about this cause of death

When and how did George Floyd die?

The trial was one of the biggest civil rights cases of a generation Josh Marcus 18 October 2022 00:46 1666048686

Critics worry Elon Musk and Kanye West owning social networks will embolden right-wing forces

Observers are concerned about the growing trend of right-wing entrepreneurs buying social networks, from Kanye West buying Parler, to Peter Thiel funding Rumble, to Donald Trump’s Truth Social. “It was never about free speech,” the advocacy group Public Citizen said in a tweet on Monday. “It’s a matter of power. It’s a matter of control. It’s about avoiding responsibility.” Here’s what critics had to say about the direction Mr. Musk could take on Twitter.

Observers worry Musk could turn Twitter into ‘supercharged radicalization machine’

Many observers are worried about the changes coming to the social platform Josh Marcus 18 October 2022 00:18 1666046886

TikTok users flock to Kanye West’s anti-Semitic rants

Kanye West’s recent anti-Semitic rants may have gotten him locked down on his social media accounts and condemned by various people, but that hasn’t stopped TikTok users from flocking to his hateful comments and even mixing them with literal Nazi propaganda. The content violates TikTok’s speech guidelines, which state: “We don’t allow content that contains hate speech or includes hateful behavior and we remove it from our platform.” However, as Rolling Stone reports, the hateful videos remain on the site for now. Josh Marcus October 17, 2022 11:48 p.m 1666045085

Trump and Kanye talk over dinner amid spat over anti-Semitism

Donald Trump and rapper Kanye West spoke out Monday as the pair face similar but unrelated accusations of anti-Semitism over their recent comments about Jews. The two spoke by phone after it was announced that the Grammy-winning but troubled and controversial artist would buy Parler, a right-wing social media site, according to Politico, which cited a source familiar with the call. Mr. West apparently initiated the conversation, and the two plan to meet in person for dinner in the near future, according to the news outlet. The rapper has been banned from Twitter and Instagram after he threatened to “kill 3 the Jews” and claimed that Jews are behind his wife Kim Kardashian’s choice to divorce him. The former president, meanwhile, is facing his own anger from Jewish Americans over a statement released in recent days accusing Jews themselves of being ungrateful for US support for Israel and demanding they “cooperate” and support larger numbers. John Bowden has the…