WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 About 70% of participants in a survey on the social network X, created by its owner Elon Musk, were in favor of unblocking the account of the famous American conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on the platform.
In November 2022, Musk refused to unblock the Twitter account (formerly X) of conspiracy theorist radio host Jones over his claims that the 2012 Connecticut school shooting was staged.
““Reinstate Alex Jones on this platform? Vox Populi, Vox Dei (translated from Latin as “voice of the people — voice of God” — ed.),” Musk wrote in a publication with a survey. According to the final voting results, of the more than 1.9 million people who took part, 70.1% answered “yes” to Musk’s question.
In 2018, Twitter, Apple, YouTube and Facebook* (an extremist social network banned in the Russian Federation) deleted InfoWars content and Jones’s accounts, citing a violation of the rules for using social networks. Jones called it censorship and alleged harassment from social networks. American media call Jones a conspiracy theorist who spreads “conspiracy theories.” In particular, Jones stated that the school shooting in Connecticut with 26 victims in 2012 was staged, that the US authorities were involved in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, that the landing of American astronauts on the moon in 1969 was a fake.
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* The activities of Meta (social networks Facebook and Instagram) are prohibited in Russia as extremist.
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