A few hours after Elon Musk wrote “The people have spoken and so it shall be,” Alex Jones’s posts were visible on X again.
Musk was answering a poll he started on Saturday, asking whether Jones should be allowed back. Of those who responded, 70 percent said yes.
Musk framed the decision as a matter of free speech. He also promised that X’s crowd-sourced fact-checking service “will respond rapidly to any AJ post that needs correction.”
Why the account was gone
Jones said again and again on his web show that the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, never happened. He claimed it was staged to tighten gun laws.
Relatives of many of the victims sued him in Connecticut and Texas and won judgments worth more than a billion dollars. Jones is appealing. In October a Texas judge ruled that he could not use bankruptcy protection to get out of paying more than $1.1 billion to the families who sued.
