Kanye West suspended from Twitter after posting swastika inside Star of David

Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, has been suspended from Twitter after he tweeted an image of a swastika blended with a star of David, less than two weeks after he returned to the platform.

The suspension took place hours after Ye praised Adolf Hitler and the Nazis in an interview on Infowars, a show hosted by the rightwing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

Ye was one of several high-profile Twitter users whose accounts were banned or restricted on the site who then had them reinstated after Elon Musk took over as owner.

The rapper then began posting on Truth Social, the social media platform started by Trump, sharing text messages purportedly from Musk, in which the billionaire appeared to attempt to reason with him about the tweet.

Shielded behind a face mask, Ye appeared alongside the white supremacist Nick Fuentes on Infowars in an episode posted online on Thursday.

On Friday, Joe Biden used Twitter to express fresh condemnation of antisemitism and political leaders that tolerate it, passively or otherwise.

Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, echoed similar sentiments on Friday.

Since Musk took over Twitter in October, hate speech has proliferated significantly across the social media platform.

On Friday, the New York Times reported new findings from the Center for Countering Digital Hate, the Anti-Defamation League and other organizations that monitor social media.

Additionally, before the takeover, hate speech against gay men appeared an average of 2,506 times a day. However, after Musk bought the company, homophobic slurs jumped to 3,964 times a day.

Similarly, slurs against Black Americans appeared a daily average of 1,282 times before Musk purchased Twitter. However, after his takeover, hate speech jumped to an average of 3,876 times a day.

Maya Yang contributed reporting