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.

  • @takeda@lemmy.world
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    21 year ago

    The responsibility only matters if their server is open, they could have one just for their employees like it is done with email.

    But there is another option and it only requires web server which they already have. It is called RSS feed.

    • Corgana
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      21 year ago

      Mastodon accounts can actually be subscribed to with RSS