Elon Musk’s disturbing and budding vision for Twitter was on full display this weekend after the SpaceX and Tesla CEO found himself at the center of a content moderation controversy created by Kanye West, who is now going through Yes.
West appeared on Twitter Friday night for the first time since November 2020, Tweeter “Look at this Mark how you left to kick me off instagram” with a blurry photo of himself and Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg singing karaoke. The company confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that Instagram had indeed removed content from West’s account and placed restrictions on him following repeated policy violations. While West’s account was still visible on Sunday, he’s likely locked out of posting new content temporarily.
West’s recent Instagram posts are all screenshots of texts, and the post that broke Instagram’s rules appears to have been a conversation with Sean “Diddy” Combs in which he invoked anti-Semitic tropes, accusing the other musician to be controlled by “the Jewish people”. .”
Future Twitter owner Elon Musk was quick to welcome West to the platform, despite the troubled artist’s very recent expressions of anti-Semitism.
West appears to have interpreted Musk’s warm welcome as a green light, expanding on his anti-Semitic conspiracies in a tweet just twelve hours later. “I’m a little sleepy tonight but when I wake up I’m going to die [sic]con 3 On the JEWISH PEOPLE,” West tweeted Saturday night. “…You have toyed with me and tried to test anyone who opposes your program.”
Despite Musk’s endorsement, Twitter deleted the tweet, which invoked anti-Jewish stereotypes often held by white supremacists, and locked West’s account “due to a violation of Twitter policies,” a confirmed one. Twitter spokesperson at TechCrunch.
Just before he wreaked havoc on Instagram and Twitter, West sparked controversy during Paris Fashion Week, debuting a new line in a pop-up warehouse show that included a shirt with the phrase “White Lives Matter.” The incident immediately pitted West again against much of the fashion industry, which spoke out against him and defended Vogue editor Gabriella Karefa-Johnson, whom West attacked for criticizing his stunt as “deeply offensive, violent and dangerous”.
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