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Wiley is facing a police investigation after comments appeared on his social media accounts on Friday asserting that Jews systematically exploited "The anti-Semitic posts from Wiley are abhorrent," Patel said on Twitter . "They should not have been able to remain on Twitter and Instagram for so long
Wiley is facing a police investigation after comments appeared on his social media accounts on Friday asserting that Jews systematically exploited Black “The anti-Semitic posts from Wiley are abhorrent,” Patel said on Twitter . “They should not have been able to remain on Twitter and Instagram for so
LONDON (Reuters) - British interior minister Priti Patel said on Sunday she had asked Twitter and Instagram for a full explanation of why anti-Semitic comments made by rap artist Wiley remained on the social media platforms for so long.

Wiley is facing a police investigation after comments appeared on his social media accounts on Friday asserting that Jews systematically exploited Black artists in the music industry, continuing a pattern of exploitation dating back to the slave trade.
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Grime artist Wiley is banned from Twitter for seven days but NOT Instagram over string of anti-Semitic posts that compared Jewish people to the Ku Klux Klan. A number of tweets have now been removed . Pictured: DJ Spoony, who took to Twitter to condemn Wiley ' s tweets . e wrote on Twitter
UK rapper Wiley is being investigated by the police and has been dropped from his management label following a bizarre outburst in which he posted a series of anti-Semitic Twitter and Instagram are being called on to remove Wiley ’ s accounts, which have over 940,000 followers combined.

"The anti-Semitic posts from Wiley are abhorrent," Patel said on Twitter.
"They should not have been able to remain on Twitter and Instagram for so long and I have asked them for a full explanation. Social media companies must act much faster to remove such appalling hatred from their platforms."
Twitter has deleted some anti-Semitic statements on Wiley's Twitter account.
Wiley, 41, whose real name is Richard Cowie, released a number one single in Britain in 2012 and had several other top 10 hits. He received a UK government honour for his contribution to music in 2018.
John Woolf, of A-List Management, has said he would no longer represent the artist.
(Reporting by Elizabeth Piper. Editing by Jane Merriman)
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