(USA Today) Ye has been suspended from Twitter again – this time by the social platform’s new CEO Elon Musk.
The rapper, formerly known as Kanye West, was first locked out of Twitter in October after publishing antisemitic tweets. Musk took over the platform later in October. In early November, Ye was reinstated.
On Friday, the Tesla founder suspended his account again saying he “violated” the platform’s rules.
“He again violated our rule against incitement to violence. Account will be suspended,” Musk tweeted Friday in response to a user asking him to “fix Kanye.”
Earlier in the day, Ye tweeted a series of antisemitic posts after making several antisemitic comments during an interview with Alex Jones.
After the interview, Parler, a social media app Ye planned to purchase, announced it has canceled earlier plans to sell the conservative platform to Ye by mutual agreement.
The deal would have given Ye his own personal megaphone and a voice in how speech on social media is moderated. Ye said he would use Parler to make sure conservative viewpoints could be freely expressed.
Ye has faced months of backlash since his initial tweet. Several businesses have cut ties with him, including Adidas, Gap and Balenciaga, the fashion brand he walked the runway for during Paris Fashion Week.
Kim Kardashian, his ex-wife who he settled a divorce with Tuesday, responded to Ye’s hateful tweets on Oct. 24 saying on Twitter, “I stand together with the Jewish community and call on the terrible violence and hateful rhetoric towards them to come to an immediate end.”
