Jones has been banned from most major social media platforms for spreading falsehoods, like saying school shootings are faked, and that survivors and parents of slain children are crisis actors.

Elon Musk, responding to a poll he initiated on his X platform, has restored the account of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Jones and his Infowars site had been banned since 2018. Restoring Jones' account comes as Musk has seen advertising from major brands flee the platform.

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.

Elon Musk has restored Alex Jones's account on his social media platform, X, after conducting a poll that revealed users wanted him back. | TAG24

Jones spent more than a decade harassing the families of those who died in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting. Musk is now amplifying him.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk announced early Sunday that he would be reinstating far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ account on X, the platform previously known as Twitter. Musk, the owner of

Alex Jones is back on X five years after then-Twitter made the decision to permanently ban him and his show, Infowars, for violating the site’s policy on “abusive behavior.” Elon Musk — who last year said he wouldn’t unban Jones because of the conspiracy theorist’s insistence on calling the Sandy Hook massacre a hoax — created a poll on X over the weekend asking users to vote on whether Jones should be reinstated.

A majority of users on X have voted to reinstate the account of U.S. conspiracy theorist Alex Jones in a poll set up by the social media platform's owner Elon Musk. "Reinstate Alex Jones on this platform?