CyberWell Statements on the Ye (Kanye West) Antisemitic Tirade 2025

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

CyberWell reached out to Shopify’s compliance and safety teams to alert them to the flagrant abuse of Shopfiy’s services by yeezy.com in violation of the terms of use. Shopify’s team acted swiftly and decidedly by removing yeezy.com’s “shop” for peddling antisemitic filth. This is the type of leadership and accountability that should be expected from ALL social media platform and digital service CEOs – when someone flagrantly abuses your platform or services to spew hate with impunity they should be stopped. GoDaddy provides the domain services for yeezy.com – the Swastika T-Shirt shop is in direct violation of its terms of service and it would do well to follow suit and release the rights to the domain.

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Ye’s abuse of digital platforms to amplify his message for millions has not stopped at social media. He has implicated at least three digital service providers to promote his vicious hatred and support of Nazi fascism including Shopify, Cloudflare and GoDaddy. Not to mention his further abuse of NFL advertising during the Super Bowl to promote yeezy.com. The importance for digital policy compliance against clear violations of terms and services and in direct opposition to hatred being spread to millions of people has never been more important.

CyberWell has reached out directly to Shopify and to GoDaddy.com, the company providing domain services to yeezy.com. In GoDaddy’s case this is a clear violation of their Universal Terms of Service, Section 5. We await their response and immediate action.

Friday, February 7, 2025

Kanye’s latest tirade of hatred on Friday morning serves as an example of the consequences of social media companies systematically reducing the enforcement of their own digital policies since Musk’s 2022 takeover of Twitter and Zuckerberg’s recent shift in Trust & Safety policies on January 8.

The systematic lowering of Trust & Safety standards is already emboldening and encouraging antisemites and extremists to freely abuse algorithmically charged platforms to spread hatred and vitriol.

With mounting evidence linking algorithmically amplified hatred, incendiary content, and digital harassment to real-world harm – including hate crimes, terrorist attacks, and youth suicides – CyberWell remains opposed to the alarming weakening of industry standards surrounding the moderation of hate content and online antisemitism.

In his Friday outburst, Ye repeatedly glorified Hitler and openly shared malicious hatred against multiple communities, including the Jewish community, for millions of views, shares and retweets on the X platform.

This isn’t the first time Ye’s hate speech has incited a surge in antisemitism across digital platforms. For more details on the impact of Ye’s online attacks in 2022, please refer to the alert we issued to platforms in real-time.