Edward Berthelot
The morning after billionaire edgelord Elon Musk officially took over Twitter, numerous media outlets and cable news networks breathlessly reported that rap superstar Kanye West’s Twitter account had been “reactivated” and made publicly “visible” again following a “suspension” over his antisemitic tweets.
The only problem with this is that West, who now goes by the name Ye, was never actually suspended by Twitter, and his account was never taken down.
Following Musk’s acquisition of the social-media giant on Thursday evening, which featured him firing multiple executives, it was reported that the Tesla founder has contemplated lifting all lifetime bans on Twitter accounts. This would conceivably result in former President Donald Trump—along with a host of right-wing provocateurs who’d been kicked off the platform—returning to Twitter.