Musk Suspends Ye From Twitter After Offensive Image Post
- Twitter’s owner pledged to strip moderation down to minimum
- Ye tweeted depiction of a swastika embedded in star of David
Kanye West, who now calls himself Ye.
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Even on Elon Musk’s Twitter, there are red lines for permissible content, and Kanye West, who now calls himself Ye, crossed one of them with a late Thursday night post that prompted the network to suspend his account.
The artist tweeted an image combining the Star of David with a swastika, which got removed by the social media service. In its place was a message saying the post violated Twitter Inc.’s rules and a link to its policy page explaining enforcement actions. Since then, the entire account has been suspended, with all of its tweets now obscured. Ye had 32.2 million followers before the suspension.