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Posted: 2023-01-24T15:46:32Z | Updated: 2023-01-25T15:31:01Z

Twitter reinstated and then quickly re-banned the account of Nick Fuentes , the prominent white supremacist who most recently made headlines for joining the antisemitic presidential campaign of rapper Ye. After a year-and-a-half exile from the platform, Fuentes account returned Tuesday morning. By Wednesday, it was banned again.

Twitter representatives have not yet explained the reinstatement nor the subsequent ban.

In a Twitter Space on Tuesday night, during the brief 24 hours he was back on the platform, Fuentes mocked critics who have accused him of antisemitism and said, Dont care, bitch. Jews run the news, bitch. Sup ... Jews run the media. Back on Twitter, lets fucking go.

Fuentes also praised Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and the Unabomber, according to Hannah Gais, a senior researcher at the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The tech companys reinstatement of Fuentes verified account on Tuesday had made made him the latest extremist figure permitted on the site since the beginning of billionaire Elon Musks chaotic tenure as CEO.

Twitter banned Fuentes in July 2021 for repeated violations of the rules, pushing him and his followers, many of whom call themselves Groypers, to alternative social media platforms like Telegram. Fuentes created another account in October 2022 when Musk took control of the company, but it swiftly banned that, too. Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment about Fuentes reinstatement.

Being back on Twitter this week briefly gave the 24-year-old who rose to prominence in fascist circles after attending the deadly neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 an even bigger megaphone to push his explicitly racist and antisemitic agenda.

Fuentes held a literal megaphone outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, where he reportedly could be heard encouraging his supporters to storm the building. Congress later subpoenaed Fuentes who had been a major player in the Stop the Steal movement to keep Donald Trump in power after the then-presidents 2020 election loss over his involvement in the insurrection.

In February 2022, Fuentes hosted a white supremacist conference in Florida where he praised Hitler and led his supporters in a chant supporting Russian President Vladimir Putin as the Kremlins bombs dropped on Ukraine. Another speaker called for Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former chief medical adviser to the White House, to be hanged. Far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) also spoke at the conference.

Although once an avid supporter of Trump, Fuentes has since become an adviser to the rival presidential campaign of Ye, the entertainer formerly known as Kanye West. Fuentes joined the campaign just as the Ye was facing backlash over a series of alarming antisemitic comments.

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Ye and Fuentes dined with Trump at the former presidents Mar-a-Lago mansion last year. Later, the pair sat down for an interview on the show InfoWars with Alex Jones, the infamous conspiracy theorist. Ye praised Hitler during the interview.

Fuentes himself praised Hitler just last week, saying the genocidal fascist was really fucking cool.

Musk has recently allowed a slew of white supremacists and other far-right figures back on Twitter, including Andrew Anglin the fugitive neo-Nazi founder of The Daily Stormer, a site that advocates gassing Jews.

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