Facebook and Instagram remove Wiley's accounts after antisemitic rant

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Grime star Wiley has been banned from Facebook and Instagram after launching an anti-Semitic tirade last week.The Wearing My Rolex rapper started posting antisemitic tropes on his Twitter feed on Friday, writing Jews "make me sick", repeating the trope of Jewish people controlling businesses and comparing this to the Ku Klux Klan, and insisting Israel should not be a Jewish state.Wiley has since been dropped by longtime on-and-off manager John Woolf, and Metropolitan Police officials confirmed

Facebook has banned Wiley from its platforms after an account purportedly belonging to the rapper took aim at some of his Jewish critics.

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Labour at risk of bankruptcy from antisemitism legal casesHome secretary Priti Patel yesterday demanded answers from Twitter and Instagram for how long it took the two companies to respond to the hate speech on their platforms.Under the hashtag #NoSafeSpaceForJewHate, musicians Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Jessie Ware as well as actor Jason Isaacs said they would take part in the boycott which began at 9am this morning.The official Twitter account for the Liberal Democrats said it would also be

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