Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has had his account on X - formerly Twitter - reinstated by Elon Musk.

Musk asked users to vote in a poll whether or not to lift a Jones ban pre-dating his ownership of the platform, signalling he would honour the result.

Around 70% of roughly two million respondents voted to lift the ban.

Jones is most notorious for falsely claiming the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting, in which 20 children and six adults died, was “staged”.

He was ordered to pay $1.5bn (£1.32bn) in damages to family members of the victims, after courts found he had caused them to be subjected to harassment and death threats with his false claims.

  • @Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world
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    511 year ago

    Coincidence that he just also appeared as a guest on Tucker’s show for the first time ever? I think Alex is getting some kind of push somehow/somewhere to spew his bile back into the limelight.

    • @phoneymouse@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I’m sure it’s for the 2024 election… the right is drumming up the crazies to get out and vote for the orange traitor.

    • @Catma@lemmy.world
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      91 year ago

      I mean if it happens he is going to have to pay the Sandy Hook families the money he owes. Dude is still on the hook for a cool billion with 2 trials to go.

    • body_by_make
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      71 year ago

      He’s been getting a lot of love from Russia, and the GOP and Russia are best friends