Staff Writer
Around eight months after his account was suspended, artist and fashion designer Kanye West has had his account restored on X, the social networking platform formerly known as Twitter, according to a Saturday Wall Street Journal story.
Tycoon Elon Musk barred musician Kanye West from the platform he had only weeks previously purchased after West shared an image in the fall of last year that looked to show a swastika and a Star of David intertwined.
West’s post was classified by Musk at the time as a “incitement to violence.”
A question on West’s account was not immediately answered by the X press office. West still hadn’t posted anything new by late in the evening.
According to the Journal, West, who now uses the name Ye professionally, promised the site he wouldn’t use his account to disseminate offensive language or anti-Semitic material.
Last year, West’s anti-Semitic comments caused him to lose a lot of business. After a collaboration of over ten years, Adidas severed ties with him and stopped carrying his Yeezy-branded footwear.
The German business claimed in May that the termination of its wildly popular partnership with West had reduced sales by roughly 400 million euros ($441 million) in the first quarter of the year.
The rapper and fashion designer were also fired from Gap and Balenciaga.
Since Musk paid $44 billion to acquire Twitter in October of last year, he has let go of thousands of staff and reduced content control.
Donald Trump, the former president, has not yet returned to Twitter, but he restored it in December.
The renaming of Twitter as X and the announcement that it would become a “everything app” that would enable users to manage all of their finances in addition to socializing were made a week ago by Musk and his recently hired chief executive, Linda Yaccarino.
Musk also removed the iconic blue bird from the Twitter logo and replaced it with a white X.
