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Again, Twitter suspends Kanye West’s account

Twitter has again suspended the account of United States rapper, Kanye West, just two months after it was reinstated.

Twitter owner, Elon Musk, said the singer, now known as Ye, violated the platform’s rules prohibiting incitement to violence.

Musk, who calls himself a free speech absolutist, had welcomed the return of Kanye West to the platform in October.

“I tried my best. Despite that, he again violated our rule against incitement to violence. Account will be suspended,” Musk tweeted on on Thursday night.

Kanye West’s account was suspended within an hour of Musk’s post, made in a reply to a Twitter user who had said “Elon Fix Kanye Please”.

Before suspending Ye’s account, which had over 30 million followers, Twitter had restricted one of his tweets.

However, the contents of the post could not be immediate verified.

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The social media platform restored the rapper’s account before the completion of its $44 billion takeover by Musk.

Musk later clarified that he had had no role in bringing Ye back on Twitter.

Kanye West, on Thursday, tweeted a photo of Hollywood mogul, Ari Emanuel, spraying water at the back of Musk’s head with a hose.

He captioned the picture “Let’s always remember this as my final tweet #ye24”, before the account was suspended.

Musk responded that Ye’s account was suspended for incitement to violence, and not for posting “an unflattering pic of me being hosed by Ari”.

In November, Twitter reinstated some controversial accounts that had been banned or suspended, including satirical website Babylon Bee and comedian Kathy Griffin.

Musk also decided to reinstate former U.S. President Donald Trump’s account after a majority of Twitter users voted in favor in a poll to bring back Trump.

The Star

Segun Ojo

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