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Kanye West’s Twitter account reinstated
By Chris Cooke | Published on Monday 31 July 2023
Kanye West’s Twitter account has been reinstated, although obviously now it’s technically an X account.
The rapper’s profile on the social media platform was previously suspended at the start of December last year as West continued to make ever more extreme racist and anti-Semitic statements.
West had previously been locked out of Twitter two months earlier for breaching its offensive content rules. It was around about that time that the rapper announced he was buying Parler, a rival social media platform known for being more tolerant of controversial right-wing opinions.
That deal ultimately fell through, meanwhile Elon Musk bought himself Twitter and quickly relaxed its rules around offensive content. West was then allowed to tweet again. Until the second ban in December.
That followed West telling Alex Jones on his ‘Infowars’ show that “I see good things about Hitler”. He then posted at tweet including an image showing a swastika over the star of David, ie the symbol of Nazism over the symbol of Judaism.
As the rapper’s Twitter account was blocked again, Musk tweeted: “I tried my best. Despite that, he again violated our rule against incitement to violence. Account will be suspended”.
It’s not clear why West’s profile is back now. Neither X nor Musk nor West have commented. As of this morning, no new tweets have been posted to the rapper’s account.
