Kanye West Tweets Antisemitic Messages After Instagram Ban

October 09, 2022

US rapper Kanye West attends the WSJ Magazine 2019 Innovator Awards at MOMA on November 6, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Angela Weiss / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

On Saturday, Instagram restricted Kanye West‘s account after he posted a screenshot of an antisemitic message he sent fellow rapper Diddy. According to NPR, the message read, “Ima use you as an example to show the Jewish people that told you to call me that no one can threaten or influence me. I told you this was war.” Although a Meta spokesperson declined to specify which particular post got Kanye restricted, all signs point to to the Diddy screenshot.

West responded to the restriction by heading back to Twitter, where he hadn’t posted since 2020, and immediately posting a now-deleted tweet that read:

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