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Ye website down after selling swastika shirts, Shopify says site violated terms

Headline from NBC 6 South Florida, on the newest of 2 developments

"This merchant did not engage in authentic commerce practices and violated our terms so we removed them from Shopify,” the company told NBC News.

NBC 6 South Florida's own description from its feed. We collect headlines and these descriptions, not full articles; read the original reporting below.

Developments in this update

2 dated developments, oldest first, newest marked. Each is named by one outlet's own headline; open its reports to see every outlet that covered it.

  1. Ye's website is selling swastika shirts after boosting its profile with Super Bowl ad

    Headline from NBC News ·

  2. Newest

    Ye website down after selling swastika shirts, Shopify says site violated terms

    Headline from NBC 6 South Florida ·

Reports & sources

17 articles, oldest first.

  1. New York Post

    Kanye West’s Yeezy merch store is only selling a vile swastika T-shirt in another shocking show of rapper’s antisemitism (opens New York Post)

    Published

    New York Post's feed description

    Kanye West pushed his antisemitism to even more disgusting extremes -- taking out a Super Bowl ad to direct people to a merch store only selling a $20 swastika shirt.

  2. NBC News

    Ye's website is selling swastika shirts after boosting its profile with Super Bowl ad (opens NBC News)

    Published

    NBC News's feed description

    The website of rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, used a Super Bowl commercial to send people to his website which is selling T-shirts emblazoned with a swastika.

  3. NBC 6 South Florida

    Ye website down after selling swastika shirts, Shopify says site violated terms (opens NBC 6 South Florida)

    Published

    NBC 6 South Florida's feed description

    "This merchant did not engage in authentic commerce practices and violated our terms so we removed them from Shopify,” the company told NBC News.

  4. Insider

    Kanye West's 4 days of controversy: a Super Bowl ad, a swastika T-shirt, and a Shopify shutdown (opens Insider)

    Published

    Insider's feed description

    Shopify confirmed to BI that it took down YEEZY.com after a Super Bowl ad directed viewers to an online store that later featured a swastika T-shirt.

  5. Los Angeles Times

    Shopify shutters Kanye West's Yeezy website: Selling swastika shirt 'violated our terms' (opens Los Angeles Times)

    Published

    Los Angeles Times's feed description

    Shopify shuts down Ye's post-Super Bowl efforts to sell swastika T-shirts on his website, saying the rapper once known as Kanye West 'violated our terms.'

  6. New York Post

    Shopify deletes Kanye West’s Yeezy store selling swastika T-shirt, says it’s not ‘authentic commerce’ (opens New York Post)

    Published

    New York Post's feed description

    Shopify on Tuesday took down a website from rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, that sold just one vile item – swastika t-shirts.

  7. NBC Los Angeles

    Shopify takes down Ye website selling swastika shirts after Super Bowl ad (opens NBC Los Angeles)

    Published

    NBC Los Angeles's feed description

    The rapper ran a Super Bowl ad directing viewers to visit Yeezy.com, where it promoted a $20 black t-shirt with a swastika.

  8. Forbes

    Shopify Shuts Down Kanye West’s Yeezy Site After Days Of Selling Only One Thing: A Swastika T-Shirt (opens Forbes)

    Published

    Forbes's feed description

    Rapper Kanye West Went had been posting antisemitic and misogynistic tweets for days before listing a swastika T-shirt for sale on the Yeezy website, which has since been taken down.

  9. NBC News

    Ye website down after selling swastika shirts, ecommerce platform says site violated terms (opens NBC News)

    Published

    NBC News's feed description

    The website run by Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, is offline after selling swastika shirts. Shopify, the ecommerce platform, said the site violated its terms of service.

  10. Variety

    Kanye West’s Yeezy Website Down After Selling Swastika T-Shirt; Shopify Says West ‘Violated Our Terms’ Amid Backlash (opens Variety)

    Published

    Variety's feed description

    Kanye West's website was pulled offline after selling a Nazi shirt. Shopify says the rapper violated its terms.

  11. Rolling Stone

    Kanye West's Swastika T-Shirt Website Removed Following Backlash (opens Rolling Stone)

    Published

    Rolling Stone's feed description

    Shopify removed Kanye West's Yeezy website after he only listed a shirt with a swastika on it following a Super Bowl ad promoting the clothing item.

Identical headlines usually mean shared wire copy. They are counted as separate articles but are not independent confirmation.

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