CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

The Guardian reports:

Kanye West has now had both his Instagram and Twitter accounts locked after antisemitic posts over the weekend. Twitter locked his account Sunday after it removed one of West’s tweets saying he was going “death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE” because it violated the service’s policies against hate speech.

“The account in question has been locked due to a violation of Twitter’s policies,” a spokesperson for the platform told BuzzFeed News.

The social media company Meta also restricted West’s Instagram account after the rapper made an antisemitic post on Friday in which he appeared to suggest the rapper Diddy was controlled by Jewish people, an antisemitic trope, NBC News reported.

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— Guardian music (@guardianmusic) October 9, 2022