It came after moderators deleted content from Ye’s Instagram page and restricted the account after the rapper posted a screenshot of a message he sent to Sean “Diddy” Combs in which he implied that Combs was being controlled by shady people. strongly Jewish – an old anti-Semitic trope. .
A Meta spokesperson confirmed to BuzzFeed News on Sunday that they had deleted the content from Ye’s account and placed a restriction on him using it to break their rules.
The tweets were among Ye’s first since November 2020, with the performer mostly staying on Instagram since then.
When he started tweeting again this weekend, Elon Musk, the potential future owner of Twitter, celebrated Ye’s return to the platform. tweets“Welcome back to Twitter my friend!”
In recent days, Ye, who has been public with his bipolar disorder in the past, has displayed behavior that has alarmed many observers and prompted several high-profile figures to denounce him.
Vogue magazine ran one declaration Defense of editor-in-chief Gabriella Karefa-Johnson after they said she was “personally targeted and harassed” in a series of “unacceptable” Instagram posts from West after she criticized him for wearing a White Lives Matter shirt on the Week of Fashion in Paris. .
The phrase is commonly used as a racist response to the Black Lives Matter movement, according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Supermodel Gigi Hadid also came to Karefa-Johnson’s defense, denouncing Ye on his Instagram page as “a bully and a joke”.
Of course, this all happened amid Ye’s constant attacks on ex Kim Kardashian and her family.
On Thursday night, Ye also took down far-right Fox News host Tucker Carlson, accusing Donald Trump’s son-in-law and presidential adviser Jared Kushner, who is Jewish, of helping negotiate treaties between Israel, the United Arab Emirates Arab and Bahraini. to earn money.
Ye’s Fox News interview and White Lives Matter stunt drew attention from Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee, who compared him to Musk and Trump on Twitter.
