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Instagram has restricted the account of rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, after he made a post that some groups are calling “anti-Jewish,” as was reported by NBC News.
According to a Meta spokesperson, Instagram deleted content from Ye’s Instagram page and placed a restriction on the account after the company said that the rapper violated its rules and guidelines.
NBC News also reported that Meta did not specify what content was specifically removed from the account and what content violated their rules, but the decision comes after Ye made a now-deleted-post Friday that was anti-Semitic in nature.
A report in Rolling Stone indicated that repeatedly violating the platform’s policies and breaking its rules may result in restricting an offending user from posting, sending DMs, or commenting.
In the post, Ye shared a screenshot of a text exchange he said he had with Sean “Diddy” Combs, with the caption “Jesus is Jew,” as was reported by NBC.
The news follows a week of controversy that kicked off mass condemnation after Ye displayed T-shirts sporting “White Lives Matter” at his YZY fashion show in Paris on Monday, according to the report in Rolling Stone.
Earlier in the week, Diddy criticized West for the T-shirts he presented in Paris.
NBC News reported that the message from Ye appeared to show that Combs was controlled by Jewish people, a reference to a long-standing anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.
The post came after Ye appeared in a Fox News interview Thursday with Tucker Carlson and also echoed anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, as was reported by NBC News. In the interview, Ye accused Jared Kushner, who is Jewish, of brokering Israeli treaties for monetary gain.
Rolling Stone reported that in the text exchange between West and Diddy, West said that he would “show the Jews that told you to call me that no one can threaten or influence me.”
The American Jewish Committee issued a statement following the reported exchange between West and Diddy. “Kanye West has had a streak of rants this week that is remarkable even by his standards,” the statement reads. “Ye needs to see that words matter, especially a vicious anti-Semitic comment that recently surfaced on social media. If he wants to have any credibility as a commentator on social issues, let alone as a musician, maybe he can start by figuring out how to make a point without fomenting hatred of Jews.”
The Rolling Stone report said that Ye responded to the Instagram restriction by hopping on to Twitter for the first time in nearly two years to taunt Meta and call out Mark Zuckerberg. “Look at this Mark,” Ye wrote, sharing a photo of the two of them together. “How you gone kick me off instagram.”
The Instagram restriction takes West’s long week of controversies and stretched them into the weekend, according to the Rolling Stone report
Ye and those close to him have been public about his struggles with his mental health in the past, according to the NBC News report. He was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2017, and has a history of posting erratically on social media.
Recently, Ye has used Instagram to attack his estranged-wife, Kim Kardashian and other business partners.
