Kanye West Is Suspended From Twitter After Posting a Swastika - The New York Times

Media|Kanye West Is Suspended From Twitter After Posting a Swastika

Elon Musk, Twitter’s main executive, said precocious Thursday that Kanye West would beryllium suspended from Twitter aft the rapper and manner decorator tweeted an representation of a swastika wrong the Star of David. Mr. Musk said the station violated the societal media outlet’s regularisation against the incitement of violence.

The tweet was deleted soon earlier Mr. West’s relationship became nary longer accessible. His leafage was soon replaced with a label: “Account suspended.”

So continued the controversy stirred by Mr. West — who goes by Ye — and his drawstring of antisemitic remarks connected social media. Instagram blocked him from posting aft helium suggested connected the level that Sean Combs, the rapper known arsenic Diddy, was being controlled by Jewish people. Ye has besides lashed retired against Jewish radical via Twitter.

The indefinite Twitter suspension happened connected the aforesaid time that Ye had appeared connected a podcast hosted by the Infowars conspiracy broadcaster Alex Jones, during which helium told Mr. Jones, “I similar Hitler.”

The swastika tweet was portion of a bid of posts that included praise for Balenciaga, the French luxury marque that terminated its nonrecreational narration with Ye successful October due to the fact that of his antisemitic comments. Balenciaga, which had partnered with Ye connected runway shows and different manner projects, has precocious faced its ain contention successful the signifier of allegations that it condoned kid exploitation.

Before his suspension, Ye had besides tweeted an unflattering photograph of Mr. Musk being hosed down connected a yacht.

“This is fine,” Mr. Musk tweeted successful effect to the image. “This is not,” helium wrote successful respect to the swastika post, confirming Ye’s suspension.

“He again violated our regularisation against incitement to violence,” Mr. Musk added. “Account volition beryllium suspended.”

After being locked retired from Twitter, Ye had agreed to bargain Parler, a societal media outlet fashionable with right-wing audiences. On Thursday, the institution said that it had “mutually agreed with Ye” to end his deal to bargain it.

Ye’s regularisation connected Twitter was lifted by Oct. 29, an enactment that Mr. Musk said Twitter had taken earlier helium acquired the company.

Mr. Musk has said his attack to contented moderation is: “If successful doubt, fto the code exist.” He has besides said that Twitter would beryllium “forming a contented moderation assembly with wide divers viewpoints.”

He has reinstated accounts that had been suspended for pushing misinformation, including those of erstwhile President Donald J. Trump and Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene. He has besides said helium would connection “amnesty” to accounts suspended by the company’s erstwhile leadership.