Musk’s Twitter, now X, restores Kanye West’s suspended account after 8-month-long ban over controversial swastika post

New Delhi: Twitter on Saturday restored the suspended account of Hollywood’s grammy winning Rapper Kanye West after almost 8 months of ban for breaching the platform’s terms and conditions that prohibit incitement to violence.

Following the reinstation, Kenye’s account is now again visible to the general public and shows his last post from 2 December 2022. However, Despite the restoration, Kenye still won’t be able to monetise or show advertisements on his account.

What lead to Kayne’s account being taken down?

For the unversed, West’s account was suspended last year in December for posting a number of controversial posts. In one of his most objectionable posts, the 46-year-old superstar showed a symbol of Swastika merged with a Star of David.

As per a report by Wall Street Journal, Kenye’s account was returned to him after he assured the owner on Twitter (now X) that we won’t be using the platform for inciting violence by promoting hateful language.

This came days after the new owner of the social media giant Elon Musk rebranded the micro-blogging site from Twitter to X. Musk also reinstated Kenye’s account last year in October after the singer was kicked out of the platform for posting a series of anti-semantic( Anti-Jew) messages.

Musk returns Donald Trump’s Twitter account

Last year, the billionaire also welcomed former US president Donald Trump to his platform by restoring his account on the basis of the result of a poll in which over 14 million users participated and out of them, around 52% voted in favour of the reinstatement of Trump’s account.

However, Trump, who immediately launched his own social media platform after getting banned on Twitter, made it clear that he is not in the mood of returning to the Platform anymore and would rather stay focused on his own platform called Truth Social.