Musk’s X social media platform reinstates Kanye West’s account By Reuters

(Reuters) – Social media platform X reinstated account of Ye, the artist previously referred to as Kanye West, on Saturday, after it was suspended almost eight months in the past as a result of the rapper had violated the platform’s guidelines prohibiting incitement to violence.

Ye’s account now reveals his final publish from Dec. 1, a day previous to when his account was suspended on platform X, the brand new identify proprietor Elon Musk has given Twitter.

Ye will not be eligible to monetize his account on X, and commercials will not seem subsequent to his posts, the Wall Road Journal reported on Saturday, citing the social media platform.

Ye’s account was suspended in December, simply two months after it was reinstated, after considered one of his posts had earlier appeared to point out a swastika image inside a Star of David.

X reinstated Ye’s account after receiving reassurance that he would not use the platform to share antisemitic or in any other case dangerous language, the report stated, citing an individual aware of the matter.

Ye has not posted something new since coming again on the platform.

The social media platform didn’t instantly reply to Reuters’ request for remark.

The billionaire proprietor of X, who calls himself a free speech absolutist, had welcomed the return of the rapper to the platform in October, after his account was reinstated for the primary time.

Musk had beforehand reinstated former U.S. President Donald Trump’s account after conducting a ballot during which some 14.8 million Twitter customers had voted with 51.8% voting in favor of the reinstatement. However Trump had stated that he had little interest in returning to Twitter and would stick together with his new platform Reality Social.

After Ye went on a string of antisemitic rants in interviews and on social media he misplaced his partnership with Adidas (OTC:) and Hole for Yeezy merchandise.