X boss Elon Musk restores account of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones

Alex Jones. File picture: Tyler Sizemore/Hearst Connecticut Media via AP

Elon Musk has restored the X account of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones following a poll on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter that came out in favour of the Infowars host who 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 their ads.