Musk suspends Ye from Twitter after posting offensive image

Musk suspends Ye from Twitter after posting offensive image

anti-semitism

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Two weeks earlier, the social network’s new owners restored access to former U.S. President Donald Trump while also welcoming Ye back from Twitter.

Even Elon Musk’s Twitter has a red line on allowed content, and Kanye West, who now goes by the name Ye, criticized them in a post Thursday night that urged the network to suspend his account. exceeded one.

The artist tweeted an image combining the Star of David and the swastika, but it was removed by the social media service. Instead, he received a message that this post violated his Twitter Inc. rules and a link to a policy page outlining the enforcement action. The entire account has since been suspended and all tweets are now hidden. Ye’s follower count before the suspension was 32.2 million.

Addressing the issue after the post was first removed, Musk said it wouldn’t be the first time Ye violated Twitter’s rules against inciting violence and his account would be suspended. It’s the most high-profile test yet of Musk’s professed policy of making Twitter a place for free speech, as long as it doesn’t break the law.

Two weeks earlier, the social network’s new owners restored access to former U.S. President Donald Trump while also welcoming Ye back from Twitter. Ye left his Twitter account after the service took action against his post, which it deemed to be anti-Semitic.

However, it seems that the cordial relationship between the two men didn’t last long, as Ye’s latest tweet featured an unflattering image of a shirtless Musk on vacation. Musk responded to the post with the words, “That’s fine.” He also replied to a tweet containing the now-deleted image, saying, “This is not what it is.”

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