WASHINGTON —
Instagram and Twitter said they have restricted the accounts of
US rapper Kanye West over posts slammed as anti-Semitic.
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A spokeswoman for
Twitter told AFP on Sunday that West’s account was locked due to a violation of
the social media platform’s policies.
Meanwhile, a
spokesperson for Instagram parent Meta told AFP the group had deleted content —
without specifying which posts — from West’s account for violating its rules.
Instagram also
restricted his account, which may involve preventing him from posting,
commenting, or sending private messages, according to the same source.
In the tweet, which is no longer visible on West’s
account, the rapper said: “I’m a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up I’m
going death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE,” in apparent reference to a
US military
readiness code known as DEFCON.
The restrictions
come after West, a Black artist who now goes by Ye, stirred controversy by
wearing a “White Lives Matter” T-shirt during the recent Paris Fashion Week, in
a misappropriation of the slogan “Black Lives Matter”.
The phrase “
Black Lives Matter” became a rally cry for protests against racism and police
brutality sparked by the 2020 murder of George Floyd.
On Friday,
45-year-old West posted screen shots on Instagram of a conversation with rapper
Diddy, who called out West over the T-shirt and its message.
“Ima use you as an
example to show the Jewish people that told you to call me that no one can
threaten or influence me. I told you this was war. Now gone get you some
business,” he wrote.
He then said on
Twitter that he would target Jewish people in a post that has been blocked by
the platform for violating its rules.
The
American Jewish Committee hit out at West for having “fomented hatred of Jews”.
“Kanye West should
figure out how to make a point without using antisemitism,” the organization
said.
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