Kanye West’s Twitter Account Suspended After Swastika Tweet, But He Had More Controversial Posts Including Hitler Take

Twitter has suspended Kanye West's account for uploading a design of a swastika within the Star of David, which violates the social media platform's policy against incitement to violence.

Elon Musk, the CEO of Twitter, announced the ban on Thursday, saying he "tried his best" to persuade the artist not to spread such content, according to The Independent.

On Thursday night, West posted the Nazi emblem over the Star of David, a Jewish symbol.

Later, he posted a picture of Musk topless while on a yacht. The tech billionaire Musk responded that he is "fine" with the image, which the rapper later removed.

Kanye Has Gone Too Far

After this, West went to Donald Trump's social media network Truth Social to post screenshots of text messages he claimed to have received from the owner of Twitter.

Musk told West: "Sorry, but you have gone too far."

West responded, asking "Who made you the judge," and posting a snapshot of his Twitter account displaying the 12-hour Twitter suspension.

Confirming West's suspension to a Twitter user who asked him to "fix Kanye", Musk tweeted: "I tried my best" and Kanye's account will be suspended.

On the same day that West's Twitter account was suspended, he made the statement "I admire Hitler" during an Infowars discussion with Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes and right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

During his presence on the program, West frequently lauded the Nazi commander.

Jones tried to claim he did not think the rapper was a Nazi, but West cut him off and said he was an admirer of the guy who ordered the slaughter of almost 6 million Jews.

Toxic Obession With Adolf Hitler

CNN reported that numerous former friends of West said he was captivated by Adolf Hitler and planned to name a music album after him. A former company executive of West's has disclosed that Kanye West's fixation with the Nazi leader contributed to a toxic workplace atmosphere.

After a proposed contract between Ye and Parler fell through, the ban was announced on Twitter.
In a statement to NPR, the conservative social media platform acknowledged that it had abandoned a prior plan to sell the site to Kanye West, the musician, and businessman who now calls himself Ye.

The completion of the Ye-Parler agreement had been anticipated by the year's conclusion.

Time reported that Elon Musk, the new owner of Twitter, had also given access to former US President Donald Trump two weeks before Kanye West returned from his Twitter exile.

West addressed the antisemitic sentiments, as well as what he had stated regarding the killing of George Floyd and Black Lives Matter, in a meandering 16-minute video uploaded by WmgLab Records on YouTube in late October, allegedly made after Adidas severed ties with him.

While attempting to disassociate himself from any "hate group," West did not offer apologies for his antisemitic sentiments in the video.

West prayed out his words by saying he has no ties to any "hate organization" and he urged people to "walk in love."

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