Elon Musk, Twitter’s chief executive, said late Thursday that Kanye West would be suspended from Twitter after the rapper and fashion designer tweeted an image of a swastika inside the Star of David.
Instagram blocked him from posting after he suggested on the platform that Sean Combs, the rapper known as Diddy, was being controlled by Jewish people.
Before his suspension, Ye had also tweeted an unflattering photograph of Musk being hosed down on a yacht.
Musk has said his approach to content moderation is: If in doubt, let the speech exist He has also said that Twitter would be forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints.
He has also said he would offer “amnesty” to accounts suspended by the company’s previous leadership.