Twitter ban for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to remain

Elon Musk has decided helium won't let arguable conspiracy theorist Alex Jones backmost connected Twitter, contempt allowing his users to take whether Donald Trump tin return.

The right-wing podcaster and Infowars laminitis has precocious been ordered to wage a full of $1.44bn (£1.2bn) by US courts for falsely claiming the victims of a Connecticut schoolhouse shooting were actors.

He alleged for years that the Sandy Hook massacre successful Connecticut was staged arsenic portion of a authorities crippled to instrumentality distant Americans' guns.

But the question has been asked astir reinstating his account, fixed Mr Trump's has.

The erstwhile US president was permanently suspended from Twitter in January 2021 pursuing the deadly onslaught by his supporters connected the US Capitol.

New Twitter proprietor Musk called that prohibition a "mistake" and "morally wrong".

Now the billionaire hass been tweeted the nonstop question: "Is it clip to fto Alex Jones back"?, with the statement Mr Jones has apologised and reinstating his relationship would beryllium successful "the involvement of existent escaped speech".

But Musk powerfully disagrees.

Explaining his reasoning, helium tweeted: "My firstborn kid died successful my arms. I felt his past heartbeat.

"I person nary mercy for anyone who would usage the deaths of children for gain, authorities oregon fame."

Last week Musk asked users connected Twitter to ballot connected whether to reinstate the erstwhile president, and the effect was adjacent - 51.8% voted yes, portion 48.2% voted no.

Since Mr Trump's relationship was revived helium is yet to tweet though, deciding alternatively to instrumentality to his ain societal media platform, Truth Social.

Critics reason the societal media level has been successful an almost changeless authorities of chaos since helium took over.

Musk has besides triggered a flood of resignations, successful summation to cutting thousands of jobs, aft giving unit an ultimatum that they must motion up to "high strength and agelong hours".

But helium wrote connected Twitter past week helium was not disquieted astir that adding "the champion radical are staying".

In an email to immoderate employees connected Friday helium demanded grounds of what their bundle codification has "achieved" successful the past six months, saying "there volition beryllium short, method interviews".