{"id":11281,"date":"2023-12-09T20:31:26","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T20:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/connectwithfund.com\/business\/elon-musk-says-conspiracy-theorist-alex-jones-may-be-restored-on-x\/"},"modified":"2023-12-09T20:31:27","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T20:31:27","slug":"elon-musk-says-conspiracy-theorist-alex-jones-may-be-restored-on-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/connectwithfund.com\/?p=11281","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk says conspiracy theorist Alex Jones may be restored on X"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-editable=\"content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-reorderable=\"content\">\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clpydxey3001ce0nqhgsr5tzm@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n       Elon Musk says he may restore conspiracy theorist Alex Jones\u2019 account on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, pending the results of an unscientific poll of his followers.\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clpygwq0h00023b6h60lm2nr2@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n      The move comes after Musk previously said he would not lift the ban on Jones, despite some users\u2019 requests, because of his false claims about the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clpyh8rax00033b6i5lcom1hf@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n      In a post on X Saturday, Musk said he disagreed with Jones\u2019 comments about Sandy Hook but asked, \u201care we a platform that believes in freedom of speech or are we not?\u201d\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clpyh91xl00053b6i2jvvwwdq@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n      \u201cIf the people vote him back on, this will be bad for X financially, but principles matter more than money,\u201d Musk said. The poll asking Musk\u2019s followers whether Jones should be reinstated showed Jones\u2019 return winning by a healthy margin as of Saturday afternoon.\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clpyhp0rk00003b6h5znzp5xh@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n      Musk has aggressively defended what he calls his \u201cfree speech\u201d stance, telling advertisers in an interview last month to \u201cgo f**k yourself\u201d even as he apologized for his post boosting the antisemitic conspiracy theory. Musk last week also called for the firing of Disney CEO Bob Iger after the entertainment giant \u2014 previously one of the platform\u2019s largest brand partners \u2014 pulled its ad dollars from X last month.\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clpyhpn5800023b6hpmhsnvsa@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n      Twitter permanently suspended Jones and other accounts linked to his website, InfoWars, in September 2018, citing abusive behavior and following similar moves by YouTube, Apple and Facebook. Twitter\u2019s ban came one month after Jones had been temporarily suspended after he posted a video saying, \u201cNow is time to act on the enemy before they do a false flag.\u201d\n  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/12\/09\/business\/alex-jones-restored-x-elon-musk-poll\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk says he may restore conspiracy theorist Alex Jones\u2019 account on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, pending the results of an unscientific poll of his followers. The move comes after Musk previously said he would not lift the ban on Jones, despite some users\u2019 requests, because of his false claims about the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. In a post on X Saturday, Musk said he disagreed with Jones\u2019 comments about Sandy Hook but asked, \u201care we a platform that believes in freedom of speech or are we not?\u201d \u201cIf the people vote him back on,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Elon Musk says conspiracy theorist Alex Jones may be restored on X | ConnectWithFund<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Elon Musk says he may restore conspiracy theorist Alex Jones\u2019 account on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, pending the results of an unscientific\" \/>\n<meta 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