Elon Musk suspends  Kanye West from Twitter

The owner of the social network Twitter, Elon Musk, canceled Friday the account of the American rapper Kanye West, who currently responds to the name of Ye, for inciting violence.

The cancellation was announced by Musk himself after the rapper posted an image on his profile of what looked like a swastika fused with a Star of David.

“I did my best. Despite that, he again violated our rule against inciting violence. The account will be suspended,” said the owner of the social network, in which the rapper’s profile already appears as canceled.

This is not the first time that the artist has been suspended from that social network, recently acquired by Musk.

The suspension comes after West praised Adolf Hitler in an interview published Thursday on the far-right blog “Infowars,” in which he denied the existence of the Holocaust and made anti-Semitic comments.

West appeared with his face fully covered by a ski mask and his hands covered with gloves in that interview broadcast on “Infowars” by broadcaster and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

The protagonist for years of headlines both for his music, his fashion brand, or his personal life as well as for his recurring outbursts, a more unleashed Kanye West who has set off all the alarms in recent weeks due to a string of racist and antisemite comments.

Those comments have caused the artist to lose millions of dollars in contracts with shoe and clothing brands, which have canceled the agreements they had with the rapper.

Ye was last week at the residence of former US President Donald Trump (2017-2021) in Mar-a-Lago (Florida) together with the nationalist Nick Fuentes, known for his anti-Semitic views, at a dinner that has been criticized even by sectors of the  Republican Party.