San Francisco: After Meta-owned Instagram, Twitter has now locked rapper Kanye West, who now goes by the account identify “Ye”, out of his account after he posted an anti-Semitic tweet, as Tesla CEO Elon Musk welcomed him on the micro-blogging platform.
West surfaced on Twitter for the primary time since November 2020, tweeting “Look at this Mark, How you gone kick me off Instagram, You used to be my n***a”, together with a blurry picture of himself and Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg singing karaoke.
“The account in question has been locked due to a violation of Twitter`s policies,” a Twitter spokesperson instructed The Verge on Sunday.
Instagram has additionally eliminated content material from West`s account and positioned restrictions on it following repeated coverage violations. Musk shortly welcomed West again to the platform, regardless of his current expressions of antisemitism.
“Welcome back to Twitter, my friend!” tweeted the Tesla CEO.
West later posted a controversial textual content: “I`m a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up I`m going death (sic) con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE. You guys have toyed with me and tried to black ball anyone who opposes your agenda.”
In spite of Musk`s approval, Twitter eliminated the tweet, and later locked the rapper`s account. Instagram additionally positioned a restriction on Kanye West`s account after deleting content material for a violation of the platform`s insurance policies, reported Variety.
A Meta spokesperson mentioned that non permanent restrictions on posting, commenting and messaging are commonplace follow for accounts that frequently violate the social media platform`s insurance policies.
