Elon Muskhas suspendedKanye Westfrom Twitter after the rapper posted an image of a swastika inside a Star of David.
“I tried my best,” Musk posted on Twitter early Friday. “Despite that, he again violated our rule against incitement to violence. Account will be suspended.”
The rapper and fashion designer has beenembroiled in controversyfor more than a month due to hisantisemitic remarks.
West was previously banned from Twitter in October over a tweet that said he planned to go “death con [sic] 3 on Jewish people,” which cost the rapper and fashion designer lucrative deals with dozens of companies,including Adidas. Despite this, his account was reinstated last month.
West’s page now says “account suspended.” He previously had more than 30 million followers.
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The news comes after 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.
Elon Musk and Kanye West.Kevin Mazur/Getty Images
Elon Musk and Kanye West.Randy Shropshire/Getty Images; Jason Davis/Getty Images
The tweet — posted on Oct. 6 — was initially seen as an embrace of West, Elon Musk andDonald Trump, all of whom have endorsed Republican politics despite earlier voting for or supporting Democrats.
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Kanye West at an Oval Office meeting with President Trump.Douliery Olivier/ABACA/Shutterstock
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.)
“Well, I see good things about Hitler also,” West responded. “I am done with the classifications. Every human being has something of value that they brought to the table, especially Hitler.”
source: people.com
