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After being suspended by Meta on Friday, Kanye West posted on Twitter for the first time in nearly two years — a move celebrated by Elon Musk, who is in the process of buying out the social network.
West, who legally changed his name to Ye, tweeted a photo of a hat that said 2024. Musk responded with his Tweeterreading “Welcome back to Twitter, my friend!”
West last posted on Twitter in November 2020, just after the last US presidential election. After his first tweet on Friday, West posted another one which included a photo of him with Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg accusing him of kicking him off Instagram.
In a statement to CNN Business on Saturday, a spokesperson for Meta said content from West’s account was removed for violating company policies and a restriction was placed on his account. He did not specify what was objectionable in the content or what type of restriction was imposed.
The move comes after West shared a since-deleted post that included a screenshot of a text conversation with Sean “Diddy” Combs that was criticized by the American Jewish Committee as “anti-Jewish.”
West had previously been suspended by Instagram for 24 hours in March for directing a racial slur at “Daily Show” host Trevor Noah.
Earlier this week, West sparked controversy for wearing a ‘White Lives Matter’ shirt and dressing several black models with the same phrase, deemed a ‘hate slogan’ by the Anti-Defamation League, during his runway show. fashion in Paris.