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Twitter booted rapper Ye off its platform after he published an image of a swastika combined with the Star of David, testing the limits of allowable speech on the social media platform under Elon Musk’s ownership.
The artist, formerly known as Kanye West, faced a Twitter suspension earlier this year over antisemitic posts, but Mr. Musk decided to forcefully pull the plug this week.
“I tried my best. Despite that, he again violated our rule against incitement to violence,” Mr. Musk said on Twitter Friday. “Account will be suspended.”
Mr. Ye’s swastika post came after he praised Hitler in an interview with Alex Jones, a prominent conspiracy theorist whom Mr. Musk has kept off Twitter.
The rapper’s antisemitic remarks made in recent weeks have led to his suspension from other platforms and caused companies such as Adidas to sever ties with him.
