Rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, stormed off the set of an interview with Tim Pool, host of the show “Timcast IRL,” on Monday after he was confronted about his anti-Semitic views.

The interview comes as West has repeatedly made news headlines for spouting anti-Semitic remarks which have since upended many of his business pursuits.

“They tried to lock me up. That’s right, because every time, I’m just holding stride, and it’s like, I didn’t, I thought I was more Malcolm X, but I find out I’m more MLK, because as I’m getting hosed down every day by the press, and financially, I’m just standing there,” West claimed. “And when I found out that they tried to put me in jail, it was like a dog was biting my arm. I almost shed a tear, almost. But I still walked in stride through it.”

“I think they’ve been extremely unfair to you,” Pool responded, talking about the media’s treatment of West.

“Who is they though?” West responded. “We can’t say who ‘they’ is, can we?”

“The press,” Pool responded. “I’m not using the, I don’t use the word [‘they’] as the way I guess you use.”

“What do you mean it’s not?” West responded before getting up and walking out of the interview.

“Are you leaving?” Pool asked as West walked by him.

Another man in the room asked West, “Are you afraid of the press?”

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Kanye West just stormed out of a livestream on @Timcast because Pool refused to go along with West's antisemitic and conspiratorial assertion that Jews control the corporate press.https://t.co/TRD7snV3zk pic.twitter.com/OXHiTGVmaM

— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) November 29, 2022

TRANSCRIPT:

KANYE WEST: They tried to lock me up. That’s right, because every time, I’m just holding stride, and it’s like, I didn’t, I thought I was more Malcolm X, but I find out I’m more MLK, because as I’m getting hosed down every day by the press, and financially, I’m just standing there. And when I found out that they tried to put me in jail, it was like a dog was biting my arm. I almost shed a tear, almost. But I still walked in stride through it.

TIM POOL: I think they’ve been extremely unfair to you.

WEST: Who is they though? We can’t say who ‘they’ is, can we?

POOL: The press. I’m not using the, I don’t use the word [‘they’] as the way I guess you use.

….

POOL: No.

….

WEST: What do you mean it’s not?

POOL: What do I mean? Like, so how about–

[West stands up and leaves]

POOL: Are you leaving?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Are you afraid of the press?

POOL: He’s gone. I’ll say it right now, you guys want to bring that stuff up [inaudible/crosstalk]. You think Ye’s going to come in here and say, ‘here’s my pain, here’s my suffering,’ I’m going to say, ‘I hear you.’ And then he’s going to say, ‘it was Jewish people,’ and I’m going to be like, ‘Ok, but don’t you consider–?’

[Highlights West’s reaction]: ‘I’m not going to do this, I refuse!’

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Search results of current widespread protests opposing oppressive COVID lockdown measures in major cities across China were drowned out last weekend by Chinese bots advertising pornography, escort services, and gambling.

Air-Moving Device, a Twitter account analyzing China through data graphs, showed charts indicating footage of widespread protests in Beijing, Shanghai, and other cities were nearly hidden from Chinese citizens to access information about the mass demonstrations.

Thread: Search for Beijing/Shanghai/other cities in Chinese on Twitter and you'll mostly see ads for escorts/porn/gambling, drowning out legitimate search results.
Data analysis in this thread suggests that there has been a *significant* uptick in these spam tweets. pic.twitter.com/Ao46g2ILzf

— Air-Moving Device (@AirMovingDevice) November 28, 2022

“Data analysis in this thread suggests that there has been a significant uptick in these spam tweets,” the outlet said, sharing data retweeted by Stanford Internet Observatory.

Chinese citizens flooded the streets after the Chinese Communist Party’s “Zero COVID” policy prevented firefighters from rescuing residents locked inside a burning apartment building in Urumqi, leaving at least ten people dead.

The growing conflict between the government and the Chinese people has accelerated in recent weeks after some cities and provinces endured more than 100 days of severe lockdowns of China’s “Zero COVID” policy, despite just 38,000 people testing positive for the coronavirus among a population of over 1.4 billion.

Chinese Communist Party authorities have fenced in residents across the country with limited opportunities to travel while other provinces have implemented such lockdowns for more than three straight months as the nation’s pandemic policies extend into its third year, sparking citizen’s demands for Communist Party authoritarians to resign.

Mengyu Dong, a student data journalist at Stanford University, shared images of some ads, saying some of the accounts “have been dormant for years, only to become active … after protests broke out in China.”

Chinese bots are flooding Twitter with *escort ads*, possibly to make it more difficult for Chinese users to access information about the mass protests. Some of these acts have been dormant for years, only to become active yesterday after protests broke out in China. for example: pic.twitter.com/QRYLQu09Pq

— Mengyu Dong (@dong_mengyu) November 27, 2022

In a series of tweets, Dong showed various inactive accounts created as far back as 2015, flooding the social media platform with thousands of tweets within 24 hours.

The Washington Post reports that an anonymous U.S. government contractor and China expert said search results showed 50% porn and 50% protests while scrolling for news and images of the protests.

“Once I got three-to-four scrolls into the feed,” it was “all porn,” the contractor said.

A former Twitter employee told The Washington Post the platform has used suspected government-connected accounts have used similar techniques in the past.

“This is a known problem that our team was dealing with manually, aside from automations we put in place,” said the anonymous former employee.

The employee added the mass tweet campaign “was another exhibit where there are now even larger holes to fill” after the “China influence operations and analysts at Twitter all resigned.”

A current anonymous Twitter employee told an outside researcher that the company was aware of the problem.

Twitter CEO Elon Musk said that the platform experienced slight service “degradation” on Sunday from an old 3rd party tool used to block accounts with no rate limit, which some users believe may have contributed to the issue.

“Should be fixed now,” he added.

Twitter experienced slight degradation of service today from an old 3rd party tool used to block accounts that had no rate limit (sigh). Should be fixed now.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 28, 2022

Bloomberg reports Apple Inc. allegedly limited it’s AirDrop wireless file-sharing feature on iPhones in China to prevent protestors sending documents, images, and videos in their latest iOS version released last week, which caps non-contacts from receiving files at 10 minutes.

Dillon Burroughs contributed to this report.