Kanye West’s Twitter account has been suspended by Elon Musk after the rapper shared a picture of a swastika inside a Star of David.
Musk wrote early on Friday on Twitter, “I tried my best. “Despite this, he once more transgressed our prohibition against inciting violence. The account will be put on hold.”
Due to his antisemitic remarks, the rapper and fashion designer has been in the news for more than a month.
West already lost lucrative relationships with dozens of firms, including Adidas, after being banned from Twitter in October for a remark in which he threatened to “go death con [sic]3 on Jewish people.” West is also a rapper and fashion designer. His account was renewed last month despite this.
Musk, who calls himself a “free speech absolutist,” has stated that Twitter should only get engaged to follow local laws.
I tried my best. Despite that, he again violated our rule against incitement to violence. Account will be suspended.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 2, 2022
Account suspension is now displayed on West’s website. Over 30 million people used to follow him.
The report follows the failure of a potential agreement for West to buy the conservative social media site Parler. In a statement to NPR, Parler said that it had terminated an earlier contract with the rapper to sell the site in mid-November.
The House Judiciary GOP’s official Twitter also appeared to reprimand West on Thursday by removing a tweet that simply said, “Kanye. Elon. Trump.” The action occurred after West made antisemitic remarks during an interview on the alt-right online show InfoWars.
The tweet, which was published on October 6, was at first interpreted as a support for West, Elon Musk, and Donald Trump, who have all endorsed Republican politics despite having previously voted for or supported Democrats.
West remarked during his InfoWars interview that the Nazis “did good things too; we’ve got to stop always disparaging the Nazis.” (Hitler killed at least five million prisoners of war and about six million European Jews.)
After saying that the rapper didn’t “deserve to be stigmatized,” far-right InfoWars presenter Alex Jones added, “You’re not Hitler, you’re not a Nazi.”
West replied, “Well, I see nice things about Hitler too. “I have finished classifying things. Every person, especially Hitler, contributed something worthwhile to the world.”
