Elon Musk restores X account of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones

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Elon Musk reacts during an in-conversation event with Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London, on Nov. 2, 2023. Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP

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Elon Musk has restored the X account of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, pointing to a poll on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter that came out in favor of the Infowars host who repeatedly called the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax.

It poses new uncertainty for advertisers, who have fled X over concerns about hate speech appearing alongside

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