The conspiracy theorist was banned from Twitter - now X - but its owner has now reinstated him.

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.

  • rbesfe@lemmy.ca
    1·
    11 months ago

    Yeah good luck getting the average transit user to figure out and use mastodon

    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      11 months ago

      You don’t have to sign up, just have a link from your website like they do twitter. Not sure why you guys are trying to find the negative. This one is a no-brainer.