Twitter locks Kanye West’s account for anti-semitic tweet following heat Elon Musk welcome • TechCrunch

Elon Musk’s troubling, nascent imaginative and prescient for Twitter was on full show this weekend after the SpaceX and Tesla CEO strode into the middle of a content material moderation controversy created by Kanye West, who now goes by Ye.

West popped up on Twitter Friday night time for the primary time since November 2020, tweeting “Take a look at this Mark, The way you gone kick me off instagram” with a blurry picture of himself and Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg singing karaoke. The corporate confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that Instagram certainly eliminated content material from West’s account and positioned restrictions on it following repeated coverage violations. Whereas West’s account was nonetheless seen on Sunday, it’s probably frozen from posting new content material briefly.

West’s current Instagram posts are all screenshots of texts, and the submit that broke Instagram’s guidelines seems to have been a dialog with Sean “Diddy” Combs by which he invoked anti-semitic tropes, accusing the opposite musician of being managed by “the Jewish individuals.”

Future Twitter proprietor Elon Musk rapidly swept in to welcome West again to the platform, despite the troubled artist’s very current expressions of anti-semitism.

West seems to have interpreted Musk’s heat welcome as a inexperienced mild, elaborating on his anti-semitic conspiracies in a tweet solely twelve hours later. “I’m a bit sleepy tonight however once I get up I’m going loss of life [sic] con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE,” West tweeted on Saturday night time. “… You guys have toyed with me and tried to black ball anybody whoever opposes your agenda.”

Regardless of Musk’s stamp of approval, Twitter eliminated the tweet, which invoked anti-Jewish stereotypes typically espoused by white supremacists, and locked West’s account “resulting from a violation of Twitter’s insurance policies,” a Twitter spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch.

Simply earlier than sowing chaos on Instagram and Twitter, West stirred up controversy at Paris style week, debuting a brand new line in a pop-up warehouse present that included a shirt with the phrase “White Lives Matter.” The incident instantly pitted West once more a lot of the style business, which spoke out towards him and defended Vogue Editor Gabriella Karefa-Johnson, who West attacked for criticizing his stunt as “deeply offensive, violent, and harmful.”