That came after moderators removed content from Ye’s Instagram page and restricted the account after the rapper posted a screenshot of a message he had sent to Sean “Diddy” Combs, in which he insinuated that Combs was being controlled by shadowy and powerful Jews. -standing antisemitic trope.
A Meta spokesperson confirmed to BuzzFeed News on Sunday that they had removed content from Ye’s account and restricted its use because it had violated their rules.
The tweets were among Ye’s first since November 2020, and the artist has mostly stayed on Instagram ever since.
When he started tweeting again this weekend, Elon Musk, the next potential owner of Twitter, celebrated Ye’s return to the platform. tweeting“Welcome back to Twitter my friend!”
In recent days, Ye, who has gone public about his bipolar disorder in the past, has displayed behavior that alarmed many observers and prompted several high-profile figures to denounce him.
Vogue magazine published a statement defending editor-at-large Gabriella Karefa-Johnson after they said she was “personally attacked and harassed” in an “unacceptable” series of Instagram posts by Ye after she criticized him for wearing a “White Lives Matter” T-shirt at the Paris Fashion Week.
That phrase is typically used as a racist response to the Black Lives Matter movement, according to the Anti-Defamation League (AVD) and the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Supermodel Gigi Hadid also came to Karefa-Johnson’s defense, denouncing Ye on her Instagram page for being “a bully and a joke”.
Of course, this all came amidst Ye’s ongoing attacks on the ex Kim Kardashian and her family.
On Thursday night, Ye also sat down with far-right Fox News host Tucker Carlson, accusing Donald Trump’s son-in-law and presidential adviser Jared Kushner, who is Jewish, of helping broker treaties between Israel, the UAE United Arabs, and Bahrain to earn money.
Ye’s Fox News interview and “White Lives Matter” stunt received attention from Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee, who compared him to Musk and Trump on Twitter.
