Love him or hate him, Alex Jones is back.  After getting booted off all social media platforms more than five years ago, Elon Musk just reinstated his accounts on Twitter/X.

How the Alex Jones ban happened

In 2018, Apple, Spotify, YouTube, and FaceBook banned Alex Jones and his InfoWars pages within a short time frame, claiming that he spread hate speech.  About a month later, Twitter banned him, too.

I was never an Alex Jones follower. ZeroHedge was the only alternative news site I followed before 2020.  I heard he was the guy who had been kicked off social media for insulting Sandy Hook families, and that was it.

However, when Russell Brand interviewed Alex Jones in November I was willing to listen.  In that discussion, Alex stated that the Sandy Hook parents did not file their lawsuits for more than two years after he had made any public statements about the massacre

One could say that Alex Jones is fabricating this to make himself look like a victim, but further digging confirms his statement.  When Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey initially banned Alex, he said that the ban was for spreading hate speech, though he never specified what, exactly, Alex had said.  However, in an interview with Joe Rogan, independent journalist Tim Poole, and Twitter's Lead of Trust and Safety, Legal, and Public Policy Vijaya Gadde, Dorsey later admitted that Alex was kicked off for being mean to CNN reporter Oliver Darcy.  The Sandy Hook comments had nothing to do with it.

Alex Jones has been right A LOT.

The ban over a petty run-in with a CNN reporter revealed how much legacy media really hates Alex, and it's not because he is insensitive.  It's because, mixed in with the yelling and hyperbole, he gets a lot of things right.  As Tucker has said, they don't bother deplatforming Flat-Earthers.