Enlarge / Infowars-founder Alex Jones speaks to the media outside Waterbury Superior Court on September 21, 2022 during one of his Sandy Hook defamation trials. (credit: Getty Images | Joe Buglewicz)
Elon Musk has allowed conspiracy theorist Alex Jones back on the social network formerly named Twitter, despite saying that he “vehemently” disagrees with Jones’ claims that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax.
Musk restored the @RealAlexJones account after polling X users. With almost 2 million votes, about 70 percent of users supported reinstating Jones, who was banned by Twitter in 2018.
“I vehemently disagree with what he said about Sandy Hook, but are we a platform that believes in freedom of speech or are we not? That is what it comes down to in the end. If the people vote him back on, this will be bad for X financially, but principles matter more than money,” Musk wrote on Saturday. Musk also spoke with Jones about his Sandy Hook comments in a live interview on X.
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