Elon Musk (51) spoke to Kanye West (45) after his anti-Semitic derailments. The entrepreneur wrote on Tuesday on the short message service. “I spoke to Ye today and expressed my concerns about his recent tweet and I think he took that to heart,” Musk tweeted.
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. Ye, as the artist also calls himself, then reactivated his Twitter account, which had been idle for two years. Elon Musk greeted the musician with the words “Welcome back to Twitter my friend”. The native South African plans to take over the company.
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.”