Ye, the rapper previously referred to as Kanye West, has returned to Twitter after a greater than two week ruin. Ye up to now had his account locked after making a sequence of anti-Semitic remarks.
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Kanye West, the rapper who now is going by means of the identify Ye, posted his first tweets after a greater than two-week silence.
On Sunday, he tweeted to test if his account was once operating.
Ye adopted that up with “Shalom,” a greeting in Hebrew.
The tweets mark the go back of some other debatable determine to Twitter following the corporate’s acquisition by means of Elon Musk. The billionaire government stated on Saturday that he’ll reinstate the account of former President Donald Trump.
In contrast to Trump, Ye by no means gained an outright ban from Twitter. As a substitute, the corporate locked his account on Oct. 10 for an unspecified period of time, after the rapper posted a lot of antisemitic remarks which escalated into threatening and hateful feedback about Jewish other people.
Ye didn’t tweet after Oct. 9 till Nov. 3. It’s unclear when Twitter unlocked his account.
Musk stated in overdue October that he was once no longer in the back of Ye’s account being restored.
On Sunday, Musk answered to Ye’s Twitter comeback.
In line with his lockout on Twitter remaining month, Ye agreed to shop for the conservative social media platform Parler.
Ye’s antisemitic outbursts have ended in primary business companions slicing offers with the rapper.
Adidas ended its partnership with Ye remaining month whilst Hole and Foot Locker stated they might take away merchandise from the rapper’s Yeezy emblem from their shops.