Elon Musk restores Alex Jones' X account

• Jones' show, Infowars, was also permanently banned from Twitter in 2018.
• By reinstating Jones, Musk backtracked on his promise last year that he would not allow Jones back on the platform.

State of play: On Saturday, Musk posted a poll to his account asking users if Jones should be reinstated on the platform.

• About 70% of nearly 2 million respondents voted "yes."
• "The people have spoken and so it shall be," Musk posted Sunday.
• Hours later, Jones' posts were visible on the platform again and he had retweeted a post about his video game, AP reported.

Jones filed for bankruptcy last year after being ordered to pay almost $1.5 billion in damages for falsely claiming the Sandy Hook mass shooting was a hoax.

The big picture: Third-party researchers have repeatedly claimed that X has become more toxic since Elon Musk's takeover.

• The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) accused X in June and September this year of failing to contain hate speech on the platform.
• The company has persistently denied these accusations. In August, X filed a lawsuit against CCDH, accusing the watchdog of making "false" claims.
• Musk last month took a defiant stance towards advertisers boycotting the platform over antisemitism and other hate speech.