Alex Jones reinstatement on X

Extracted Attributes

• Platform

  X (formerly Twitter)

• Decision Maker

  Elon Musk

• Poll Approval Rate

  70% in favor of reinstatement

• Poll Participation

  Approximately 2,000,000 respondents

• Reinstatement Method

  Public poll ('Vox Populi, Vox Dei')

• Original Ban Duration

  Approximately 5 years (September 2018 to December 2023)

• Legal Damages Owed by Subject

  $1,487,000,000 USD awarded to Sandy Hook families and first responders

Timeline

• Twitter permanently bans Alex Jones and his Infowars show for violating platform behavior policies. (Source: NPR, Axios)

  2018-09-06

• Juries in Connecticut and Texas award a total of $1.487 billion in damages against Jones for his Sandy Hook falsehoods. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2022-10-01

• Elon Musk initially states he will not reinstate Alex Jones, citing personal reasons related to the death of his own child. (Source: BBC News, Axios)

  2022-11-01

• Alex Jones files for personal bankruptcy following the massive defamation judgments. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2022-12-02

• Elon Musk posts a poll on X asking users whether Alex Jones should be reinstated. (Source: NPR, BBC News)

  2023-12-09

• Elon Musk reinstates Alex Jones's account on X after the poll results show 70% support. (Source: NBC News, Axios)

  2023-12-10

• Alex Jones participates in a live audio chat on X with Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, and others shortly after his return. (Source: NPR, NBC News)

  2023-12-10

Alex Jones

Alexander Emerick Jones (born February 11, 1974) is an American far-right radio show host and prominent conspiracy theorist. He hosts The Alex Jones Show from Austin, Texas. The Alex Jones Show is the longest-running online news and politics talk show; it was previously broadcast by the Genesis Communications Network across the United States via syndicated and internet radio. He is the founder of Infowars and Banned.Video, websites that promote conspiracy theories and fake news. Among many other conspiracy theories, Jones has alleged that the United States government either concealed information about or outright falsified the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the Oklahoma City bombing, the September 11 attacks, and the 1969 Moon landing. He has also claimed that several governments and large businesses have colluded to create a globalist "New World Order" through "manufactured economic crises, sophisticated surveillance tech and—above all—inside-job terror attacks that fuel exploitable hysteria". Jones has provided a platform for white nationalists and neo-Nazis on his website Banned.Video, as well as providing an "entry point" to their ideology. In 2023, leaked texts from Jones's phone revealed that he had created the website National File to evade social media bans on Infowars content. A longtime critic of Republican and Democratic foreign and security policy, Jones supported Donald Trump's 2016 presidential bid and continued to support him as a savior from an alleged criminal bipartisan cabal controlling the federal government, despite also falling out with Trump over several of his policies, including airstrikes against the Assad regime. A staunch supporter of Trump's re-election, Jones also supported the attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election. On January 6, 2021, Jones was a speaker at the rally in Lafayette Square Park supporting Trump that preceded the latter's supporters' attack on the US Capitol. In October 2022, for Jones's defamatory falsehoods about the Sandy Hook shooting, juries in Connecticut and Texas awarded a total of $1.487 billion in damages from Jones to a first responder and families of victims; the plaintiffs alleged that Jones's lies led to them being threatened and harassed for years. Following three more years of litigation, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Jones's appeal without comment. On December 2, 2022, Jones filed for personal bankruptcy.

Web Search Results

• Elon Musk steers X into deeper controversy with Alex Jones

  Musk’s reinstatement of Jones is his latest push to amplify and restore conspiratorial, far-right figures to the platform, which has in turn inspired prominent users and brands to post less on X and increase their presence on alternatives like Meta’s Threads and Bluesky. In October, Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Threads has just under 100 million monthly active users. Musk said July that X had over 500 million monthly active users. Bluesky now has over 2 million users. [...] The highly controversial decision to restore Jones comes on the heels of a massive pullout from advertisers, including Disney and IBM, from X after Musk supported an antisemitic conspiracy theory on the platform. [...] IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. # Elon Musk steers X into deeper controversy with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones Musk reinstated Jones and held a public conversation with him and presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. Add NBC News to Google Alex Jones back on X after Elon Musk lifts permanent ban 04:55 Get more newson Add NBC News to Google By Kat Tenbarge

• Jones is one of several social media pariahs back on X

  Allowing Jones back on X is a reversal of Musk's 2022 statement that the ban on Jones would not be lifted. On Saturday Musk took a poll on X, and based on the results decided to reinstate Jones's account. Previous to the poll, Jones's last post on the platform was Sept. 6, 2018. > Reinstate Alex Jones on this platform? > > Vox Populi, Vox Dei. > > — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 9, 2023 [...] Shortly after being formally re-instated on X, Jones and Musk joined Vivek Ramaswamy, Laura Loomer (a self-described "proud Islamophobe" who has been banned from some platforms) and others in a live chat on Sunday. "I'm telling you they want us silenced for what we said," said Jones. The conversation covered a series of, at times, confusing topics including the "deep state" and the threats that the participants perceived to masculinity. [...] Infowars founder Alex Jones interacts with supporters at the Texas State Capital building on April 18, 2020, in Austin. Sergio Flores/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Sergio Flores/Getty Images Infowars founder Alex Jones interacts with supporters at the Texas State Capital building on April 18, 2020, in Austin. Sergio Flores/Getty Images Elon Musk, owner of X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday announced his decision to allow Alex Jones back on the platform.

• Alex Jones: Conspiracy theorist returns to X with Andrew Tate repost

  Skip to content Watch Live Watch Live # Alex Jones: Conspiracy theorist returns to X with Andrew Tate repost Sean SeddonBBC News Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has returned to X - formerly Twitter - by reposting a message by controversial influencer Andrew Tate. Tate's message praised both Jones and X owner Elon Musk, claiming: "We're back" His account was reinstated after a poll by Musk, with 70% of roughly two million respondents voting to lift the ban. [...] Elon Musk bought X in October 2022 and initially rejected calls from some of Jones's supporters to reinstate his account. In one post, he cited the death of his 10-week old baby in 2002 as motivation for not reversing the ban, writing: "I have no mercy for anyone who would use the death of children for gain, politics or fame." [...] But on Saturday Musk asked users to vote on whether or not Jones should be allowed to return - a repeat of the move which saw former US President Donald Trump's account reinstated a month after Musk took over the firm. Mr Trump has only posted once since his ban was lifted. After Musk posted the poll, Jones shared a video online in which he called on his supporters to vote in favour of his ban being overturned. Jones's old account was reinstated hours after the poll ended.

• Elon Musk restores conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' X account ... - PBS

  Restoring Jones' account comes as Musk has seen a slew of big brands, including Disney and IBM, stop advertising on X after a report by liberal advocacy group Media Matters said ads were appearing alongside pro-Nazi content and white nationalist posts. [...] Elon Musk has restored the X account of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, pointing to a poll on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter that came out in favor of the Infowars host who repeatedly called the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax. It poses new uncertainty for advertisers, who have fled X over concerns about hate speech appearing alongside their ads, and is the latest divisive public personality to get back their banned account. [...] After buying Twitter last year, Musk said he was granting "amnesty" for suspended accounts and has since reinstated former President Donald Trump; Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, following two suspensions over antisemitic posts last year; and far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who was kicked off the platform for violating its COVID-19 misinformation policies.

• Elon Musk restores Alex Jones' X account - Axios

  Why it matters: Jones, most famous for promoting the conspiracy that the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax, was permanently banned from the platform in 2018. Jones' show, Infowars, was also permanently banned from Twitter in 2018. By reinstating Jones, Musk backtracked on his promise last year that he would not allow Jones back on the platform. State of play: On Saturday, Musk posted a poll to his account asking users if Jones should be reinstated on the platform. [...] The big picture: Third-party researchers have repeatedly claimed that X has become more toxic since Elon Musk's takeover. [...] Axios Dec 10, 2023 - Technology # Elon Musk restores Alex Jones' X account Ivana Saric Add Axios on Google Add Axios as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Add Axios on Google Elon Musk announced early Sunday he is reinstating far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' account on X, formerly known as Twitter.