anye West’s Twitter account has been reinstated after an nearly eight-month suspension for violating the platform’s coverage in opposition to inciting violence.
The US rapper, who has legally modified his title to Ye, posted a sequence of erratic tweets on the finish of final 12 months, one in every of which appeared to indicate an emblem combining a swastika and a Jewish star.
He stoked additional controversy on-line with remarks made throughout an interview with US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones the place he praised Nazi chief Adolf Hitler.
Tech billionaire and Twitter proprietor Elon Musk, who has just lately rebranded the platform to X, confirmed on December 2 that West’s account had been suspended.
On the time Musk replied to a Twitter consumer who requested him to “repair Kanye”, to which he mentioned: “I attempted my finest.
“Regardless of that, he once more violated our rule in opposition to incitement to violence. Account will likely be suspended.”
The suspension adopted after West was locked out of Twitter and Instagram in October over antisemitic posts.
He confronted a backlash over his feedback which resulted in him being dropped by Adidas, expertise company CAA and the Balenciaga trend home.
West’s account was additionally locked for twenty-four hours in March 2022, following a string of on-line assaults he made in opposition to his ex-wife Kim Kardashian’s then-boyfriend, SNL comic Pete Davidson.
The rapper has not posted something new to Twitter because the suspension has been lifted with the account displaying his final posts from December 2.
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