During the last days we have witnessed how Twitter has wobbled in an extreme way after the arrival of Elon Musk as its new owner. Where even from the first day in charge of this platform he already had a couple of headaches to solve: Donald Trump and Kanye West.
The account of the ex-president of the United States had been blocked indefinitely after using the social network as a means to incite violence in the riots that occurred in the Capitol after not admitting his defeat in the last elections.
While Kanye West had shown a permanent erratic behavior that kept him going in and out of prolonged periods of suspension for his statements and behavior on the social network.
From the beginning Elon Musk spoke about the matter and shared his apparently sensible position, where he proposed creating a council to evaluate whether or not these controversial characters would return.
But in the end it all turned out to be a lie and the tycoon decided to return both accounts more or less unilaterally, which triggered strong criticism.
But something you may not have counted on is that the decision would almost immediately prove to have been seriously wrong.
Elon Musk talks about the new cancellation of Kanye West’s account: he wanted to hit him
our brothers from Publimetro Mexico have reported in depth the entire episode where Kanye West found himself quickly banned from Twitter again after making a series of anti-Semitic posts.
The straw that broke the camel’s back would have been the spread by the rapper of an illustration showing a Star of David mixed with a swastika. This image would actually be the symbol of the International Raelian Movement.
Although the frank impression is that West did not post it on his Twitter account under any direct or indirect connection with that ideology that links the origin of life with extraterrestrials, but as part of his series of positive comments about Nazism and the figure of hitler.
Now, according to a report from Business Insider, Elon Musk hosted a live Q&A session on Twitter Spaces. The central theme would be Hunter Biden’s #TwitterFiles, but it was inevitable to talk about the Kanye West affair and the millionaire revealed how he lived it:
“Personally, I wanted to hit Kanye, so that definitely incited me to violence. That’s not cool. Because at some point you have to say what incitement to violence is because it goes against the law in the US.
Like posting swastikas on what is obviously something with good intentions, it is a form of incitement to violence.”
All of this is happening in an environment and context where Twitter is failing with its ad revenue projections, with major advertisers abandoning the platform.