Priti Patel blasts Wiley's 'abhorrent' anti-Semitic posts
have now said they had received a number of reports about the tweets and are investigating.They are now being urged to permanently ban the controversial musician after the Met revealed it is probing his racist rant.
Shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said it was "absolutely appalling" Twitter had "refused to take on the antisemitic bile". Fellow Labour frontbencher Jo Stevens added: "Why haven't Twitter and Instagram removed Wiley’s accounts despite them being full of vile antisemitic content? "Thousands of young people will be seeing these awful posts. Yet another example of the tech companies failing to live up to their repeated promises on hate speech."
The Campaign Against Antisemitism asked both companies to close his accounts to "prevent further outpouring of anti-Jewish venom".Wiley, known as the "godfather of grime", posted a series of antisemitic messages including ones comparing the Jewish community to the Ku Klux Klan.the first time I raised the issue of racism and hate being hosted on
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