Kanye West’s Instagram account restricted, returns to Twitter

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After being suspended by Meta on Friday, Kanye West posted on Twitter for the primary time in almost two years – a transfer celebrated by Elon Musk, who’s within the course of of shopping for the social media community.

West, who has legally modified his title to Ye, tweeted {a photograph} of a hat that mentioned 2024. Musk responded together with his personal tweet, studying “Welcome again to Twitter, my good friend!”

West final posted on Twitter in November 2020, simply after the final US presidential election. Following his first tweet on Friday, West posted another one which included an image of himself with Meta Platforms Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg, accusing him of kicking him off Instagram.

In a press release to USA Prime Time Business on Saturday, a Meta spokesperson mentioned content material from West’s account was deleted for violating the corporate’s insurance policies and a restriction was positioned on his account. It didn’t specify what was objectionable concerning the content material or what sort of restriction was imposed.

The transfer comes after West shared a since-deleted publish that included a screenshot of a textual content dialog with Sean “Diddy” Combs that was criticized by the American Jewish Committee as “anti-Jewish.”

West was beforehand suspended by Instagram for twenty-four hours in March for steering a racial slur at “Daily Show” host Trevor Noah.

Earlier this week, West stirred controversy for sporting a “White Lives Matter” shirt and dressing a number of Black fashions in shirts with the identical phrase, deemed a “hate slogan” by the Anti-Defamation League, at his vogue present in Paris.