Kanye West’s Twitter and Instagram’s accounts have been suspended after the rapper published antisemitic posts.
Kanye West’s Twitter and Instagram’s accounts have been suspended after the rapper published antisemitic posts.
West’s posts on Twitter on Saturday night marked the first time he returned to the platform in two years. He was welcomed back personally by Elon Musk, who is in talks to buy the social media company. “Welcome back to Twitter, my friend!” Musk tweeted.
Musk has stated that he wants less censorship on the platform and it is not clear if West’s posts would have been allowed under his ownership.
West, who now calls himself Ye, took to Twitter after first being suspended by Instagram for antisemitic posts. He was in a conversation with the rapper and producer Sean “Diddy” Combs, whom he then accused of being controlled by Jewish people.
“This ain’t a game. Ima use you as an example to show the Jewish people that told you to call me that no one can threaten or influence me,” West told Combs on Instagram. He captioned the post of the text exchange “Jesus is Jew”.
After Instagram suspended his account West turned to Twitter, posting a tweet alongside a picture of him singing karaoke with Mark Zuckerberg, the Meta chief whose company owns Instagram. “Look at this, Mark,” he wrote. “How you gone kick me off Instagram. You use to be my n***a.”
In a tweet sent late on Saturday, he wrote: “Ye said he would soon go death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE.”
Read the article by Mark Sellman in The Australian (from The Times).