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Kanye West’s Twitter account was suspended early Friday after the social media platform’s owner Elon Musk said the U.S. rapper violated company rules against inciting violence.
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Kanye West, who now goes by the name Ye, tweeted an image of the Star of David with a swastika inside it late Thursday. On Friday, the rapper’s social media page showed the label: “Account suspended.”
“I tried my best. Despite that, he again violated our rule against incitement to violence. Account will be suspended,” Musk tweeted.
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West recently appeared on a podcast hosted by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, during which he told the Infowars host, “I like Hitler.”