List of Famous People Banned From Social Media

Celebs Who Were Banned From Social Media

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It's one thing when a celebrity is banned from social media for making an off-manus comment. It's some other thing when information technology's the President of the United States. Donald Trump, who's currently enjoying his Florida retirement, unmarried-handedly changed the way the world viewed social media after he was banned from Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube following the attempted insurrection at the U.S. Capitol at the start of 2021.

Though the merits of Donald Trump's presidency have been widely debated — especially as the nation still faces lawsuits regarding the debunked voting conspiracy theories he helped perpetuate — there are few who would deny his rightful place every bit king of the internet trolls. Though he perfected the art of cyberbullying during his presidency, which led to him existence publicly eviscerated by a 16-yr-old girl (what up, Greta Thunberg) and casually threatened a strange dictator with nuclear war, he's been fine-turning his craft since the days when he was peddling racist conspiracy theories about Barack Obama. In the words of i 4chan user (via The Washington Mail service), "We actually elected a meme every bit president" — and as about know, trolls eventually e'er take it as well far and get striking with the banhammer.

Trump'southward reign of internet terror has come to an stop, but he's just 1 person in a fourth dimension-honored tradition of celebrity social media bans. Here's a look at some A-listers who as well got the axe on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and beyond. It'southward a carrier dove from now on, folks.

Rihanna's work, work, work, piece of work, work got her temporarily suspended from Instagram

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Rihanna isn't afraid to use the net as the universe intended: to tease your haters until they retreat with their ethernet cable betwixt their legs. The nine-time Grammy-winner was once hailed as Nylon'south "favorite cyberspace troll" after she dragged the dazzler make Makeup Forever for suggesting that Fenty Beauty wasn't the first cosmetics visitor to put out 40 dissimilar shades of foundation. Equally Rihanna wrote in a scathing comment under their Instagram post, "Lol. still ashy." The singer has also been caught playfully batting at ex-boyfriend Drake online, but these antics aren't actually what got her temporarily banned from Instagram.

Co-ordinate to the Daily Postal service, Rihanna was suspended from the platform in 2014 after she posted a photo of her buttocks, which allegedly violated the platform'south notoriously strict rules well-nigh nudity. Information technology lasted "several days," and during this time, users who clicked on her page were hitting with a "Folio Not Found" error — but Bad Gal Riri wasn't actually existence that bad of a gal. Information technology was Instagram who was the rude boy.

A spokesperson for the social media site told the tabloid that the singer's account was "mistakenly caught in one of our automated systems and very briefly disabled." As information technology turns out, the picture was from a photoshoot with the French mag Lui. Rihanna's account lives to post a racy (but strategically covered) photo another day.

Kanye West got a 12-hr Twitter ban for doxxing

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Kanye West'south Twitter account has almost e'er been a source of controversy. The rapper is known for oversharing and tweeting baroque statements, just as he does in real life, just things appeared to screw in 2020 afterward he used the platform to announce his presidential run. Co-ordinate to NZ Herland, fans grew increasingly concerned when the star claimed that his wife was trying to "lock [him] upwards similar on the film Get Out." Effectually the aforementioned time, he besides tweeted and deleted that Kim Kardashian considered their firstborn daughter, that he had been "trying to" divorce the reality star since she met with Meek Manufacturing plant in 2018 (via People), and that Kris Jenner should exist better known as "Kris Jong-Un" (via Blast).

It shouldn't exist surprising that his extended rant would eventually snowball into a ban-worthy criminal offence. In September 2020, around the same time that he suggested he might be murdered and shared a copy of his recording contract, West shared a Forbes editor's personal telephone number and urged his followers to call it, a practice known equally doxxing. Co-ordinate to NBC News, this directly violated Twitter's privacy guidelines, and every bit Complex reports, it led to the temporary suspension of the singer'southward business relationship. The ban lasted for 12 hours, and though he jumped back on the platform immediately following his time out, at the time of this writing, the star hasn't tweeted since Election Day, Nov 4, 2020.

Courtney Love made history with her temporary Twitter break

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Courtney Beloved has always been a trailblazer — first, for women in the music industry, and then for women who run their mouth on social media. In 2011, the artist'due south short-lived Twitter suspension actually made history every bit role of a lawsuit The Hollywood Reporter described as the "first-ever high-profile defamation trial over a celeb's comments on Twitter."

Love's ban was months in the making. In 2009, the vocaliser used the platform to rant well-nigh mode designer Dawn Simorangkir, who was reportedly "demanding payment for a few thou dollars worth of apparel." Love claimed to take already paid the designer $40,000 and alleged that Simorangkir was using the singer's fame to advance her own career. In Hollywood, this is hardly a shocking merits, only information technology gets much more than audacious.

During the about week-long tirade, the rocker-turned-thespian took to just about every social media platform she could log into (including MySpace and Etsy) to allege that the designer was, among other things, a sexual activity worker and a derelict mother with a violent criminal past. Simorangkir ultimately took the singer to court, and Love's feed was temporarily suspended ahead of the trial in early on 2011. Co-ordinate to Time, the vocalizer settled the case for nearly $450,000. Of form, this would not exist the concluding fourth dimension Dearest's tweets landed her a lawsuit.

Rose McGowan's bone to pick with Ben Affleck got her banned from Twitter

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Rose McGowan stood at the forefront of Harvey Weinstein'due south downfall. The star was first named in the shocking New York Times betrayal that led to over 100 more women coming forrard with their own allegations of sexual misconduct against the picture show producer. A month later, she went on the record with Ronan Farrow for his bombshell New Yorker report, which made her one of the showtime celebrities to directly accuse Weinstein. It all began when a simple 2016 tweet about an bearding studio-head whose abusive beliefs was "an open secret in Hollywood/Media" defenseless Farrow'south eye. A yr later, McGowan named names, and it somewhen got her suspended from Twitter.

Shortly after The New York Times published its expose, basically exploding the cyberspace in the process, Ben Affleck publicly condemned the movie mogul's alleged deportment. According to The Guardian, this sent McGowan into an all-out Twitter war, alleging that Affleck had known nigh Weinstein's beliefs for years. Though she too tweeted "f**grand off" direct to Affleck, that wasn't what landed her a 12-hour suspension. Rather, information technology was the outcome of a tweet containing a individual phone number, which violates the platform's terms of service. As presently as McGowan deleted the tweet, her business relationship was restored.

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Azealia Banks got banned from Twitter after a homophobic and racist bluster against Zayn Malik

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Azealia Banks is practically the celebrity arbiter of erratic beliefs. As Billboard reported, she'due south been known to keep — and perhaps even slaughter — chickens in her closet as part of a ritual sacrifice. She's pretty much picked fights with every A-lister possible, including Beyoncé, Cardi B, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, and Lana Del Rey. Basically, it was simply a matter of time before she got banned from ane social media platform or another. In 2016, social media finally showed the star the door afterwards she took it besides far in a racist and homophobic Twitter rant about Zayn Malik.

According to The New York Daily News, Banks had been dangerously towing the line of Twitter ban since she posted abhorrent, sexually graphic tweets about Sarah Palin, who threatened to sue her. Those tweets didn't technically interruption the guidelines, but equally Billboard reports, her tweets calling Malik racial and homophobic epithets definitely did. Malik's response was little more verbal shrug, and the rapper made a mad nuance to get back on the platform. According to Vulture, Banks tried to brand a 2nd account, where she claimed Twitter only banned her considering she supported Donald Trump and was a "black b**** speaking her heed." That business relationship was suspended too, and at the time of this writing, she has no verified public Twitter presence.

Y'all can't find 50 Cent in Twitpic'south club

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50 Cent's goal was to become rich or die trying. Instead, he bankrupted himself and got banned from social media. Of all the places you could possibly face up a temporary pause, the "In Da Gild" vocalizer and Vitamin Water mogul was booted from Twitpic in 2010. According to Metro, all it took was some 10-rated photos, including a pic of a adult female "posing suggestively" with an adult toy and another picture of a woman posing "with a hamburger between her buttocks."Yum.

Instead of passing the ketchup like a good Samaritan, Twitpic laid downwardly the banhammer, igniting 1 of the about low stakes feuds in the history of hip hop. We didn't even go a diss rail. Instead, 50 Cent hurled empty threats, including, "Yhey got 30mns to get information technology back or I'ma become haywire" and "I run Twitter b****, don't touchin my s***." In this moment, it was never more evident that Fiddy actually didn't run Twitter, but if it's whatever consolation, Twitpic no longer exists. l Cent won his war by simply living long plenty for his enemies to destroy themselves.

PewDiePie'due south check marking was revoked after a terrorism joke

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In 2019, a headline from The Verge proclaimed "The Gilded Age Of YouTube Is Over," just the supposed downfall began years prior when PewDiePie, 1 of the platform's highest earners, saw his reputation devolve cheers to a serial of antisemitic comments and offensive non-jokes well-nigh terrorism. It all began with the creator's 2016 Twitter pause.

Co-ordinate to The Next Web, the Swedish streamer (whose existent proper name is Felix Kjellberg) had his account temporarily suspended and was stripped of his coveted bluish checkmark after making a joke about joining ISIS with a fellow YouTuber. As presently as he could, he retweeted and deleted a mail service from @SkyNeiws, a parody news business relationship, alleging he was unverified because of "suspected relations with Isis."

The following year, PewDiePie faced more public scrutiny. The Wall Street Journal uncovered a video of the YouTuber reacting to a sign that read "Decease to all Jews." This annotate was repeated in a subsequent video, which was removed from YouTube for containing detest speech. Per The Verge, PewDiePie ultimately "lost his YouTube Cherry-red series;" was removed from YouTube's premiere advertizing platform, Google Preferred; and "dropped from Disney's Maker Studios" as a result. The YouTuber himself claimed, "A third of my videos got demonetized," which forced him to take a "family unit-friendly" approach and movement towards other platforms, including Twitch.

Equally of this writing, PewDiePie has maintained 110 million YouTube subscribers and does not utilize Twitter, though he however has an account.

Hello Twitter, it's drunk Adele

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As it turns out, Adele is merely similar us. She gets drunk and tweets questionable stuff. In this sense, Twitter didn't ban Adele (which we can only conjecture is because the singer's drunk tweets are a souvenir that must be protected at all costs). Adele banned Twitter — or at to the lowest degree, her team did on her behalf. In a 2015 interview with Graham Norton during the taping of her BBC special (via Amusement Weekly), the singer revealed that she was forced to relinquish command of her account to her direction subsequently developing a penchant for going on drunken Twitter rants.

"I'm not a drinker anymore, but when Twitter outset came out I was drunk tweeting and nearly put my foot in it quite a few times. So my management decided that you lot have to go through two people so it has to exist signed off past someone. But they're all my tweets. No one writes my tweets. They just post them for me. And then yes, that's very, very true," she said.

Howdy from the sober side, girl. Maybe you'll go your account dorsum onetime before long.

Tila Tequila ruined her fledgling career every bit a Twitter troll after sympathizing with Nazis

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Since rising to fame on MySpace, the nation has watched Tila Tequila'southward career trajectory go from MTV reality star to a downwardly spiral of feces-fueled encounters with Juggalos, antisemitism, final-ditch pleas on GoFundMe, and adamant claims that the Earth is flat. With what basically surmounts to a half-hearted career every bit a professional Twitter troll, Tequila was ever somewhen going to be banned from social media. It was just a matter of which platform would pull the plug outset. Twitter took the allurement.

According to Buzzfeed News, the reality star was banned from the platform "after posting detest spoken language," which broke the terms of service. It'south unclear if this was the result of a single tweet or a design of antisemitic behavior. For years prior, she'd aligned herself with Nazi sympathizers, posing on Facebook wearing a red armband in front of Auschwitz and wishing "mein Fuhror" a happy birthday.

Buzzfeed News reported that at the fourth dimension Tequila's account was removed, her bio read "alt-reich queen! Literally Hitler!" and she had recently tweeted "Are y'all and your people ready to be rounded up to FEMA camps? Actually, that may be letting you off too easy!" This was in addition to throwing up a Nazi salute in a photo from an event at the National Policy Constitute, a Virginia-based white supremacism think tank. In other words: goodbye and good riddance.

British rapper Wiley achieved the superfecta: a ban from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube

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Antisemitism is one of Twitter's very few hard lines, and this extends across Hollywood. All the fashion beyond the pond, the British grime creative person Wiley (née Richard Kylea Cowie) ended upward being booted from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube for using the platforms to share antisemitic messages.

Co-ordinate to the BBC, the artist's campaign to get himself booted from just most every popular social media platform began with a garden variety antisemitic Twitter tirade. This included tweets stating, "I don't care most Hitler, I intendance about black people," as well as likening "the Jewish community to the Ku Klux Klan." The temporary intermission became a permanent ban when major users "called for a 48-hour boycott" of the service.

Afterward the boycott, Wiley moved to Facebook, where he took aim at the Jewish celebrities who criticized what he wrote on Twitter, lobbing personal attacks at Lord Alan Sugar, BBC presenter Emma Barnett, and English comedian David Baddiel. Per BBC, he referred to "Golders Green," an expanse of London with a prominent Jewish community, in several of the posts. According to The Times of Israel, YouTube followed suit with a ban a month afterwards. Correct now, it seems like the only platform that volition have him is OnlyFans, where he charges subscribers $10 a calendar month. Arguably, it's a petty pricey for someone whose detest speech outshined his recent album.

Talib Kweli was banned from Twitter after a 'colorism debate' went south

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Though Talib Kweli claimed he was leaving Twitter for "greener pastures," the rapper's permanent ban followed a two-week "discussion about colorism" that snowballed into murder threats and doxxing. Every bit Jezebel reports, information technology began when a then-24-year-quondam student named Maya Moody tweeted about how rappers Jay Z, Will Smith, Chance the Rapper, and Kweli were — in her words — "almost all ... married to light skinned women, but that's a chat for another mean solar day."

Though Moody didn't specifically tag Kweli in her comment, Jezebel reports that the rapper adult an "obsession" with her and began "incessantly tweeting at [her]." In a argument to Billboard, Moody claimed that even though she had been blocked, Kweli mentioned her handle in as many as 200 posts in the span of 12 hours. This launched an onslaught of harassment and threats from his followers, who leaked her personal information. When she pleaded for Kweli to stop, she claimed the rapper "vowed to continue harassing me for the next 13 years." A fortnight later, he was finally banned from the platform.

Kweli attempted to defend himself to Billboard, claiming his fatal flaw was sharing screenshots of the harassment he received, which contained phone numbers from purported "burner" phones. "When you run into all these articles ... maxim I attacked and harassed this poor, innocent Black woman who didn't practise anything wrong all considering I'm a colorist, that's a consummate f****ing lie," he said.

Co-ordinate to Instagram, Grace Coddington's scandalous cartoon wasn't in vogue

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Vogue'south erstwhile creative director, Grace Coddington, is just about the last person you'd look to be banned from Instagram for public indecency. She'southward not exactly posing in risque outfits like Rihanna. In fact, she but sporadically posts to brainstorm with, just apparently, a little cartoon nudity is all it takes. Co-ordinate to Independent, the former model was temporarily suspended in 2014 later on posting a nude drawing cocky-portrait.

Coddington's sketch — which was by no means detailed to the indicate of vulgarity — was meant to promote an auction that featured some of the former editor'south "favorite nude photographs." Instagram has had a long history of removing posts that evidence female nipples, including pictures of breastfeeding, fifty-fifty though male person nipples are allowed. The fatal flaw for Coddington'due south obviously 10-rated cartoon may have only been that. She dotted in some nipples, no larger than period, because, equally we've already stated, it was a drawing. How utterly scandalous.

Coddington'due south account was eventually reinstated, and the Instagram team admitted they had made a mistake. She made calorie-free of the snafu, captioning another postal service, this fourth dimension a drawing of two cats, "Good grief Pumpkin, Mother drew a nude selfie for her very start Instagram. no wonder they shut her down......she is much fatter than that." All we can say is #FreeTheCartoonNipple.

Half-broiled conspiracy theories got this celebrity chef booted from Facebook

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Facebook started groovy down on the spread of misinformation in late 2020 and early on 2021. It'due south what led to Donald Trump'southward permanent ban (at least, permanent for now), and the platform has only gotten more stringent nearly misinformation regarding the COVID-19 public health crisis. Though GOP lawmakers have used debunked conspiracy theories to downplay the pandemic, it's non just happening stateside. In 2021, Australian glory chef Pete Evans was banned from Instagram and Facebook for repeatedly sharing conspiracy theories nearly the virus.

Evans had long been a controversial figure. The BBC reports that he lost a number of sponsorships in 2020 afterwards sharing a meme featuring a "neo-Nazi symbol." The outlet also stated that Evans regularly promoted "pseudoscience about diets and cancer cures." Information technology seems, still, that his ban from the popular social media site was for specially narrow reasons.

Facebook confirmed is decision to remove the chef from the platform in a statement. "Nosotros removed Pete Evans's business relationship for repeatedly sharing debunked claims about the coronavirus or vaccines," the company said (via BBC). "We don't allow anyone to share misinformation well-nigh Covid-19 that could lead to imminent physical impairment or about Covid-19 vaccines that accept been debunked by public health experts."

Far-right commentator Alex Jones became rex of the social media ban

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Alex Jones, whose natural habitat appears to be yelling at his microphone during his eponymous radio show, was bailiwick to i of the most controversial social media bans of all time, but that'southward not to say it wasn't a long time coming. The conspiracy theorist regularly peddled debunked claims almost the then-called deep state — including the bonkers Pizzagate theory, which was so absurd it warranted a rare public apology. Weirdly enough, rampantly spreading misinformation isn't what got him banned from YouTube, Facebook, Apple, Spotify, and Twitter. Instead, he violated the terms of service of those platforms with abusive behavior and hate spoken communication.

According to Politifact, the terminal straw appears to exist a handful of videos posted in the summer of 2018. Per The Verge, these four videos, which were removed from YouTube, "contained hate speech confronting Muslims" and "transgender people," also as content that constituted "child endangerment." There was also a rant in which Jones appeared to threaten Robert Mueller while making a gun symbol with his hand.

According to The New York Times, Jones was already facing numerous legal battles with people he'south accused of various falsehoods, including the families of the Sandy Claw victims, who say they were harassed by Jones' followers over the radio host'southward outlandish and false claims almost the mass shooting. Many of those lawsuits are nonetheless playing out in court, as of this writing, and Jones' outreach has been restricted to his InfoWars website and non much else.

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