In this article, we will discuss Elon Musk’s signal, the owner of X, regarding the potential reactivation of Alex Jones’s account, a conspiracy theorist, after more than five years of permanent banning. The request for reactivation has garnered significant support from survey participants up until Saturday morning.
Key Facts
The survey was published on the X platform at 11:58 AM Eastern Time on Saturday and simply asked, “Should Alex Jones’s account be reactivated on this platform?”. By 2:30 PM on Saturday, 70% of users who voted in the survey supported Jones’s reactivation.
Jones and his company Infowars were banned from the platform, which was called Twitter at the time, in 2018, after he gained notoriety for posting content that violated the violent behavior policy.
On the day before his ban, Jones posted a video of himself criticizing CNN journalist Oliver Darcy for nearly 10 minutes during congressional hearings at the U.S. Capitol.
Forbes reached out to Infowars for comment.
Notable Quote
Alongside the survey, Musk wrote “Vox Populi, Vox Dei”, which are Latin expressions meaning “The voice of the people, the voice of God”. He has shared this adage on prior occasions when he posted a survey.
Main Background
Alex Jones is a radio host and the owner of Infowars, a right-wing media organization. Jones has long faced criticism for promoting conspiracy theories and outright lies. The Anti-Defamation League stated that he “enthusiastically and vocally defends a series of absurdities.”
After the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012, where 26 people were killed, including 20 children, Jones began claiming that the incident never happened and that the bereaved families were actors. Ultimately, the families sued him for defamation, and in 2022, after a series of court rulings in Connecticut and Texas, Jones was ordered to pay over one billion dollars to the families combined.
Jones also played a role in the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot, where a group of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in an attempt to stop the certification of President Joe Biden’s election victory. A special congressional committee investigating the riot found that Jones helped organize the rally.
Recently, Jones appeared on Tucker Carlson’s program on X.
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