Kanye West has been suspended from Twitter for “incitement to violence,” Elon Musk has introduced.
Kanye, legally named Ye, shared a collection of tweets to his web page on Thursday, one in every of which featured a photograph of a Jewish Star of David with a swastika within the center.
“YE24. LOVE EVERYONE #LOVESPEECH,” the rapper wrote alongside the picture, referring to his plans to run for presidency within the subsequent election. Ye beforehand launched into a presidential run in 2020, and publicly befriended former Republican president, Donald Trump, through the years prior.
Ye’s tweet was rapidly faraway from the platform and as a substitute changed with a notice confirming that it had “violated” the Twitter guidelines.
Ye later posted a shirtless picture of Twitter’s Chief Executive Officer, Elon Musk, and wrote, “Let’s always remember this as my final tweet #ye24.” Elon rapidly replied, “That is fine.” In response to Ye’s deleted tweet, he wrote, “This is not.”
Ye then tweeted a number of screenshots of his private textual content messages with Elon, which revealed that the tech mogul had reached out to him to sentence his tweet.
“Sorry, but you have gone too far. This is not love,” Elon textual content Ye alongside a hyperlink to the tweet. The rapper replied, “Who made you the judge.”
Another screenshot then confirmed a message from Elon that stated, “Our father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, As it is in heaven.”
Ye appeared to answer, “I’m Jesus name,” earlier than sending a photograph that confirmed that his Twitter account had been suspended briefly.
“We have determined that you have violated the Twitter rules, so we’ve temporarily limited some of your account features,” the picture confirmed.
Elon later confirmed that Ye was being suspended for “incitement to violence,” although didn’t make clear whether or not the ban was going to be made everlasting.
“I tried my best,” Elon wrote in response to somebody who advised him to “fix” Ye. “Despite that, he again violated our rule against incitement to violence. Account will be suspended,” he added.
@TheeAleexJ @kanyewest I attempted my finest. Despite that, he once more violated our rule in opposition to incitement to violence. Account shall be suspended.
Elon later adopted up, “Just clarifying that his account is being suspended for incitement to violence, not an unflattering pic of me being hosed by Ari. Frankly, I found those pics to be helpful motivation to lose weight!”
@KimDotcom @kanyewest Just clarifying that his account is being suspended for incitement to violence, not an unflattering pic of me being hosed by Ari.
Frankly, I discovered these pics to be useful motivation to reduce weight!
This all comes after months of different antisemitic feedback from Ye, all of which have seen him lose business ties with the likes of Adidas, Vogue, and Balenciaga.
On Oct. 9, Ye was banned from Twitter after he posting about his plan to go “death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE,” and later axed from Instagram when he claimed that Sean Combs was being manipulated by Jewish folks.
Balenciaga, who’ve been linked with Ye for years, introduced that it had lower ties with the rapper on Oct. 21, and confirmed that it “no longer” had “any plans for future projects related to this artist.” On the identical day, Vogue revealed that it could not be working with Ye for the foreseeable future.
Ye was additionally dropped by his expertise company, CAA, who confirmed to Billboard that its decadelong illustration of the artist was over on Oct. 24. The following day, his profitable partnership with Adidas — which was value $1.5 billion — was severed, too.