Posted on 12/10/2023 4:30:06 AM PST by RandFan
Elon Musk has restored the X account of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, pointing to a poll on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter that came out in favor of the Infowars host who repeatedly called the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax.
It poses new uncertainty for advertisers, who have fled X over concerns about hate speech appearing alongside their ads, and is the latest divisive public personality to get back their banned account.
Musk posted a poll on Saturday asking if Jones should be reinstated, with the results showing 70% of those who responded in favor. Early Sunday, Musk tweeted, "The people have spoken and so it shall be."
A few hours later, Jones' posts were visible again — the last one from 2018, when the company permanently banned him and his Infowars show for abusive behavior.
Musk, who has described himself as a free speech absolutist, said the move was about protecting those rights. In response to a user who posted that "permanent account bans are antithetical to free speech," Musk wrote, "I find it hard to disagree with this point."
The billionaire Tesla CEO also tweeted it's likely that Community Notes — X's crowd-sourced fact-checking service — "will respond rapidly to any AJ post that needs correction."
It is a major turnaround for Musk, who previously said he wouldn't let Jones back on the platform despite repeated calls to do so.
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The interview with Tucker this past week sealed the deal.
If you haven’t watched it, I highly recommend it.
That’s good since Twitter never suspended the accounts of conspiracy theorists like NPR or the rest of the corporate media.
Every liberal climate crazy is a conspiracy theorist ... they don’t get banned.
You nailed it.
These corporations conspired to deprive normal conservative Americans their free speech and they should be sued for doing so.
Elon Musk for Trump VP! (since the NBC requirement was removed from the Constitution on January 20, 2009.)
Hamas, the Uke government, the government of Iran all have accounts. The squad has their hateful accounts. The CIA and FBI have accounts.
I used to listen to Jones during the 2016 campaign period. One day he was pimping a nuclear-level BOOM that he had discovered and was generously about to reveal to the public.
So, I listened to it and realized that the very same information had been posted on FR weeks previously.
That was the last time I listened to him. It’s good that he’s back on __itter, but I won’t go there.
“I’m leaving twitter (again )” lib breakdown incoming …
NPR is the CT. Jones is far more trustworthy.
I’ve glaced at Jones a few times. His demeanor is not my style. The truth defends itself, you don’t have to scream all the time!
He banned me because I called Liz Cheney the “C” word lol
Elon’s already got more power than any U.S. VP. He’ll be doing his part to get Trump re-elected if only by virtue of his actions to defend free speech.
Excellent!
Musk is sticking it to the Prog Left Nazis!!
“Trump, who was banned for encouraging the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection”
Totally false. They used that reason but it was a false reason, it’s like saying “They banned him for starting WW2”
Popcorn anyone?
You know, if a physics theorist predicts as much seemingly off the wall stuff that turns out to be true as Alex has, he gets a noble prize.
You know, if a physics theorist predicts as much seemingly off the wall stuff that turns out to be true as Alex has, he gets a noble prize.
Bumpity
Happy to hear.
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