Kanye West and Elon Musk.Photo: getty (2)
Kanye Westis back on Twitter.
The 46-year-old rapper’s return to the social media platform comes afterElon Musksuspended him from Twitter in December after Westposted an image of a swastika inside a Star of David.
The rapper, known as Ye,hasn’t yet made a postsince his account was restored.
West is back on Twitter after an eight-month ban.Getty
Musk, 52, addressed his decision to suspend West from Twitter — of which he was CEO at the time — on the platform in December. “I tried my best,” he posted. “Despite that, he again violated our rule against incitement to violence. Account will be suspended.”
West had beenembroiled in controversydue toantisemitic remarkshe made a month before on the platform. He was previously banned from Twitter in October over a tweet that said he planned to go “death con [sic] 3 on Jewish people.”
The rapper and fashion designer lost lucrative deals with dozens of companies,including Adidas, as a result. Despite this, his Twitter account was reinstated in November.
Musk made the decision to suspend West after offensive tweets made.Liesa Johannssen-Koppitz/Bloomberg via Getty
Last year also saw the collapse of a possible deal for West to purchase the conservative social media platform Parler. In a statement to NPR, Parler said it hadended a previous agreementto sell the site to the rapper in mid-November.
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During his InfoWars appearance, West praised Adolf Hitler and said Nazis “did good things too; we’ve got to stop dissing the Nazis all the time."(Hitler murdered approximatelysix million European Jews and at least five million prisoners of war.)
source: people.com
