{"id":142290,"date":"2023-12-10T18:52:16","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T18:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magdelaine.net\/?p=142290"},"modified":"2023-12-10T18:52:16","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T18:52:16","slug":"alex-jones-reinstated-on-x-after-elon-musk-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magdelaine.net\/celebrities\/alex-jones-reinstated-on-x-after-elon-musk-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Jones Reinstated on X After Elon Musk Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alex Jones<\/strong> is back on X (formerly Twitter) after Elon Musk<\/strong> randomly decided to leave it to a vote among users to see how they felt about it … and as they say, the people have spoken.<\/p>\n The notorious conspiracy theorist — who infamously questioned the legitimacy of the Sandy Hook shooting, and got taken to court over it — regained control of his account again late Saturday after being removed from the platform years ago.<\/p>\n This all happened back in 2018 when tech companies banned him<\/strong> en masse. At the time, he was embroiled in defamation lawsuits<\/strong> from the families of the Sandy Hook victims … but that controversy, in and of itself, wasn’t why he got banned — different orgs. cited different reasons, but it all boiled down to what they said were violations of their policies.<\/p>\n For Twitter — the last social media company to ban him — they ended up citing abusive behavior by Jones and his account … similar to what the other companies ended up saying.<\/p>\n In any case, Musk reversed the decision with a poll. He wrote, “Reinstate Alex Jones on this platform? Vox Populi, Vox Dei.” After leaving the poll up for a full day, the results came in — and out of nearly 2 million people that participated, 70% said he oughta be brought back.<\/p>\n Once the poll wrapped, EM wrote … “The people have spoken and so it shall be.” He also responded to some concerned users who felt Jones could potentially pose a threat on X — but Elon clarified, “He cannot break the law.” So, it sounds like AJ will be monitored.<\/p>\n Jones hasn’t tweeted any new original content after being reinstated, but he has retweeted a few people who are celebrating his return — including Andrew Tate<\/strong>, who wrote … “To show respect to Alex Jones for his triumphant return and to show respect to Elon being a hero – tell a globalist to get f****d today.” Jones has retweeted other far-right figures too.<\/p>\n Jones continues to run his InfoWars website and channel, and broadcasts his program from there daily — but, he doesn’t have mainstream distribution on social media or otherwise.<\/p>\n He remains controversial for many reasons, some of which he addressed in a recent interview with Tucker Carlson<\/strong> … who sat down with Jones for a wide-ranging interview.<\/p>\n Now that he has a big platform again, we’ll see what he says … and if he goes too far for Elon’s taste. These days, the guy seems to be embracing a wide range<\/strong> of speech, period.<\/p>\n