Kanye West has been suspended from Twitter after he tweeted a picture of a swastika, hours after he praised Hitler and made antisemitic jokes in an interview with the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
The American rapper, 45, who has legally modified his identify to Ye, was solely allowed again on to the social media platform two weeks in the past after he was banned over different antisemitic posts.
Elon Musk, the billionaire proprietor of Twitter, confirmed West had been suspended for violating its insurance policies towards inciting violence.
He had shared a picture of a swastika entwined with a Star of David.
Replying to at least one Twitter consumer, who requested him to “fix Kanye”, Musk mentioned: “I attempted my finest.
“Despite that, he again violated our rule against incitement to violence. Account will be suspended.”
West posted a screenshot displaying he was locked out of his Twitter account for 12 hours on Truth Social, the social media platform created by Donald Trump, the previous US president.
It comes after West stoked additional controversy by praising Nazi chief Adolf Hitler throughout an interview with US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Thursday.
“You’re not Hitler, you’re not a Nazi, so don’t deserve to be called that and demonised,” Jones advised West.
“Well, I see good things about Hitler also,” the controversial US singer replied, his face hidden with a black masks.
“I love everyone, and Jewish people are not going to tell me, ‘you can love, you know, us’… every human being has something of value that they brought to the table, especially Hitler.”
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His Twitter account was beforehand locked after he posted that he was “going death con 3 ON JEWISH PEOPLE” earlier than alleging he wasn’t “antisemitic because black people are actually Jew also”.
He additionally accused report producer Sean “Diddy” Combs of being managed by “the Jewish people” in a publish on Instagram.
West was locked out of Instagram for 30 days after violating their insurance policies too.
He has additionally made a number of different controversial remarks not too long ago, together with recommendations slavery was “a choice” and calling the COVID-19 vaccine the “mark of the beast”.
His newest Twitter ban comes after right-leaning social media platform Parler mentioned West would not be shopping for the corporate.
Parent firm Parlement Technologies mentioned in a press release that each events had “mutually agreed” to terminate the intent of sale in mid-November.
Source: information.sky.com”