If Elon Musk is suddenly the voice of reason, something is probably wrong. The Tesla boss spoke to Kanye West about his anti-Semitic tweets. The rapper took this announcement to heart, at least Musk believes it himself.
Elon Musk spoke to Kanye West after his anti-Semitic derailments. The 51-year-old entrepreneur wrote this on Twitter. "I spoke to Ye today and shared my concerns about his recent tweet and I think he took that to heart," Musk said.
Just hours after his return to Twitter, the company had suspended Kanye West's account and deleted a tweet. According to media reports, the posts were confused, anti-Semitic texts.
West's preferred platform Instagram had previously banned the rapper. A spokesman for the meta corporation, which owns the social network, said a restriction was also imposed because the singer violated company guidelines, according to CNN. However, it did not specify what was objectionable about the content or what type of restriction was imposed.
Ye, as the artist also calls himself, then reactivated his Twitter account, which had been idle for two years. First, Elon Musk greeted the musician with the words "Welcome back to Twitter, my friend". The native South African is currently planning to take over the company again.
Kanye West has been attracting attention in recent days with racist and anti-Semitic statements. At a fashion show of his collection in Paris, he wore a shirt with the slogan "White Lives Matter". The sentence is used in right-wing circles as a response to "Black Lives Matter", the African-American movement against allegedly racially motivated police violence. He then spoke up with statements that the American Jewish Committee deemed deeply "disturbing, dangerous and anti-Semitic."
