Elon Musk kicked Kanye West off Twitter on Friday, after the controversial rapper posted an image that appeared to indicate a swastika interlaced with a Star of David.
“Just clarifying that his account is being suspended for incitement to violence, not an unflattering pic of me,” Musk stated in response to West’s tweet.
West had additionally shared an image of a shirtless Musk getting sprayed with water, captioned: “Let’s always remember this as my final tweet.”
Musk, who beforehand known as himself a “free speech absolutist,” has repeatedly stated he believes that every one content material permitted by regulation must be allowed on Twitter and sought to remake the social media group after he took management in October.
Since taking on the platform, Musk has minimize round half of Twitter‘s workforce, together with many staff tasked with preventing disinformation, whereas an unknown variety of others have voluntarily give up.
The firm has additionally begun reinstating roughly 62,000 accounts in what’s being referred to internally as “the Big Bang,” based on Platformer news weblog.
West has made a sequence of anti-Semitic feedback lately, because the one-time titan of trend and music seems to have entered a disturbing spiral.
On Thursday, he appeared on Infowars, the present fronted by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, to rant about sin, pornography and the satan.
“I like Hitler,” West stated a number of occasions.
