Twitter Suspends Kanye West for ‘Incitement to Violence’ Over Swastika Tweet, Musk Says

Elon Musk kicked Kanye West off Twitter after the rapper-entrepreneur tweeted an image of a Nazi swastika embedded inside the Star of David.

Musk, the mega-billionaire who bought Twitter about a month ago, said West’s account was suspended for “incitement to violence.” West’s boot from Twitter, where he had more than 32 million followers, came after he unleashed a string of bizarre and antisemitic tweets Thursday evening, including the swastika image with the text “YE24 LOVE EVERYONE #LOVESPEECH.”

West’s seemingly final tweetstorm came after he appeared earlier in the day on Alex Jones’ Infowars show, where West praised Adolf Hitler and made antisemitic remarks. Shortly after that, Parler announced that West’s deal to buy the social network had been terminated. West, who now goes by the name “Ye,” has claimed he lost $2 billion in business deals over his hateful comments, including losing his Adidas deal. Ye has claimed he will run for president of the United States in 2024.

For Musk, West’s swastika post was clearly too much. In a Twitter post captioned “Well everyone  We had a nice run Jesus is King,” West shared what was purportedly a text exchange with Musk, in which Musk had said about the image, “Sorry, but you have gone too far. This is not love.” According to the screenshot, West responded, “Who made you the judge.”

West subsequently posted a photo of Musk on his luxury yacht getting sprayed with a hose, writing, “Let’s always remember this as my final tweet #ye24.” To that Musk replied, “That is fine” but responded “This is not,” apparently in reply to West’s now-deleted tweet with the swastika image.

In a follow-up tweet, Musk wrote, “Just clarifying that [West’s] account is being suspended for incitement to violence, not an unflattering pic of me being hosed by Ari.”

West had been motivated to buy Parler, announcing the deal in October 2022, after he was temporarily suspended from Twitter and Instagram. In the post that led to his account’s prior suspension by Twitter, West said “I’m going death con [sic] 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE” and said he had been “toyed with” by Jewish people, whom he claimed have “tried to black ball anyone whoever opposes your agenda.”

For now, West’s account on Meta’s Instagram, where he has 18.5 million followers, appears to remain active. His Parler account, which has 55,900 followers, also remains live.

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