The world's wealthiest tycoon claimed he would happily serve time behind bars if one of the arms of the U.S. government such as the FBI were to attempt to censor content on X, even though he called himself a law-abiding citizen whose corporate empire regularly follows countless rules and regulations.

"If I think a government agency is breaking the law in their demands on the platform, I would be prepared to go to prison personally," he said on Sunday during a Spaces discussion with Alex Jones, the Sandy Hook conspiracy theorist whose X account Musk reinstated.