Twitter has blocked rapper Kanye West’s Twitter account over an anti-Semitic tweet published on Saturday (8).
In the removed tweet, West said he was “going death con 3 [sic] On JEWISH PEOPLE” — a pun on the Pentagon’s threat rating system, DEFCON — and also that “you guys played with me and tried to blackball anyone who opposed your agenda,” without specifying which group you wanted. he was approaching, according to Internet Archive Wayback Machine logs obtained by the CNN .
A Twitter spokesperson confirmed to the CNN that the account has been blocked for violating Twitter’s policies. The tweet was replaced on the account by a message from the company saying, “This tweet violated Twitter rules.”
The spokesperson did not say which policy was violated, but sent a link to Twitter’s rules, which include guidelines against hateful conduct.
Twitter did not say how long the account will be locked or when the user will be able to tweet again.
On Friday, West’s Instagram account was restricted for violating company policies, a Meta spokesperson told CNN .
In a tweet, the Anti-Defamation League said: “Power. Disloyalty. Ambition. Deicide. Blood. Denial. Anti-Zionism. These are all anti-Semitic tropes that we detail in our #AntisemitismUncovered Guide at antisemitism.adl.org. A lot of these myths have influenced @KanyeWest’s comments recently, and that’s dangerous.”
THE CNN was unable to contact a representative for West for comment.
Source: CNN Brasil
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