Musk: “I don’t support conspiracy theorists, but I will restore freedom of speech.”
Alex Jones claims Sandy Hook shooting was staged
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who runs social media X (formerly Twitter), restored the permanently blocked account of American conspiracy theorist Alex Jones after five years.
According to the New York Times on the 10th (local time), Musk said, “As a result of a vote among followers, we have decided to restore Alex Jones’ account.” “This decision will have a negative financial impact on “It’s more important than money,” he said.
Restoring Jones’ account would reverse a decision by executives at the old Twitter in 2018 to block him for promoting hate speech and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
Musk asked his Accordingly, in a survey conducted by X, approximately 70% were in favor of restoring Jones’ account.
Musk, who has supported some conspiracy theories since acquiring Twitter in 2022, previously supported blocking Jones’ account. Musk said in his
Jones claims that the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks were a hoax, and that the December 14, 2012 shooting incident in Newtown, Connecticut, in which 20 elementary school students and six teachers were killed, was staged to bring about stricter gun laws. It has been claimed that it was an incident. Accordingly, a U.S. court ruled that 15 people, including the bereaved family and FBI investigators, should pay $965 million (about 1.271 trillion won) in compensation in a defamation lawsuit filed against Jones.
Meanwhile, the first thing Jones did after his
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