Social media platform X reinstated the account of Ye, the artist previously often known as Kanye West, on Saturday, after it was suspended almost eight months in the past as a result of the rapper had violated the platform’s guidelines prohibiting incitement to violence.
Ye’s account now exhibits his final publish from Dec. 1, a day previous to when his account was suspended on platform X, the brand new identify proprietor Elon Musk has given Twitter.
Ye received’t be eligible to monetize his account on X, and commercials received’t seem subsequent to his posts, the Wall Road Journal reported on Saturday, citing the social media platform.
Ye’s account was suspended in December, simply two months after it was reinstated, after one in all his posts had earlier appeared to point out a swastika image inside a Star of David.
Elon Musk’s X reinstated Ye’s account after receiving reassurance that he wouldn’t use the platform to share antisemitic or in any other case dangerous language, the report mentioned, citing an individual aware of the matter.
Ye has not posted something new since coming again on the platform.
The social media platform didn’t instantly reply to Reuters’ request for remark.
The billionaire proprietor of X, who calls himself a free speech absolutist, had welcomed the return of the rapper to the platform in October, after his account was reinstated for the primary time.
Musk had beforehand reinstated former U.S. President Donald Trump’s account after conducting a ballot wherein some 14.8 million Twitter customers had voted with 51.8% voting in favor of the reinstatement. However Trump had mentioned that he had no real interest in returning to Twitter and would stick along with his new platform Fact Social.
After Ye went on a string of antisemitic rants in interviews and on social media he misplaced his partnership with Adidas and Hole for Yeezy merchandise.
With inputs from Reuters
