Elon Musk restores the account of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones after holding a public vote – despite repeatedly calling the Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax.
Numerous Twitter accounts linked to Alex Jones were permanently suspended from Twitter in 2018 and he has not been on the platform since.
The X owner insisted in November last year that he would not let the conspiracist back on the platform citing his own sense of loss after the birth of his own child.
‘My firstborn child died in my arms. I felt his last heartbeat. I have no mercy for anyone who would use the deaths of children for gain, politics or fame,’ he wrote.
But he changed his mind, citing free speech, after nearly 2 million X users voted 70:30 to let the far-right radio host re-access his account.
‘The people have spoken and so it shall be,’ Musk posted.
Elon Musk restores the account of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones after holding a public vote – despite repeatedly calling the Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax
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Elon Musk restores the account of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones after holding a public vote – despite repeatedly calling the Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax
Jones claimed for a decade that the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school shooting, in which 20 children and six staff members were gunned down, was a hoax.
He finally admitted it was no hoax shortly before he was ordered to pay more than $1bn in compensation to the victims’ families after losing a pair of highly publicized court battles which he plans to appeal.
Musk’s first child, Nevada Alexander, was born in 2002, two years after Musk and his first wife Justine married. He died from sudden infant death syndrome aged 10 weeks, after he was put down for a nap.
Piers Morgan responded ironically: ‘Great to have this calm rational human being back on here.’
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