On Saturday, social media site X reinstated the account of Ye, the singer formerly known as Kanye West, after it was suspended over eight months earlier for violating the network’s rules forbidding incitement to violence.
Ye’s account now shows his last post from Dec. 1, a day prior to when his account was suspended on platform X, the new name owner Elon Musk has given Twitter.
Ye won’t be eligible to monetize his account on X, and advertisements won’t appear next to his posts, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing the social media platform.
Two months after being restored, Ye’s account was suspended in December because one of his earlier posts appeared to portray a swastika symbol inside a Star of David.
According to the article, which cited a source familiar with the situation, X restored Ye’s account after receiving assurances that he wouldn’t use the platform to disseminate antisemitic or other abusive comments.
Ye has not published any new content since returning to the platform.
The social media platform did not immediately respond to Reuters’ request for comment.
The billionaire owner of X, who calls himself a free speech absolutist, had welcomed the return of the rapper to the platform in October, after his account was reinstated for the first time.
Musk had previously reinstated former U.S. President Donald Trump’s account after conducting a poll in which some 14.8 million Twitter users had voted with 51.8% voting in favor of the reinstatement. But Trump had said that he had no interest in returning to Twitter and would stick with his new platform Truth Social.
