Rapper Ye — also known by his given name, Kanye West — has been locked out of his Twitter account “due to a violation of Twitter’s policies,” the social media platform told CBS News in a statement. Twitter did not specify which policies had been broken, but the action came not long after West on Saturday night posted an antisemitic tweet in which he threatened to go “death [sic] con 3” on Jewish people.In the tweet — which has since been removed — West also wrote, “The funny thing is I actually can’t be Anti Semitic because black people are actually Jew also.” The move comes shortly after West’s Instagram account was similarly restricted by the platform’s parent company, Meta, after West posted screenshots of an alleged conversation with rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs in which West suggested Combs was being controlled by Jews. “Ima [sic] use you as an example to show the Jewish people that told you to call me that no one can threaten or influence me,” West wrote. Instagram has since deleted the post. Prior to Saturday, West had not tweeted since November 2020. After a tweet criticizing Mark Zuckerberg over his suspension from Instagram, West was welcomed back to Twitter by…
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Kanye West's Twitter and Instagram accounts restricted following antisemitic posts
