Elon Musk welcomes BFF Alex Jones back to Twitter
There Are No Girls on the Internet
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🗓️ 12 December 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been let back on Twitter after being banned for building a media empire on the lie that the Sandy Hook school shooting wasn't real. When Elon first took over Twitter he said he would never let Jones back on, but that promise turned out to be worth as much as most of Elon’s promises. This week he rolled out the red carpet and sat down for a chit chat in Twitter spaces to talk about how much they both love free speech and hate grieving parents.
In honor of Elon Musk and Alex Jones’s new friendship, we’re re-airing this episode about the defamation trial of Alex Jones in which he was found guilty and ordered to pay over a billion dollars to the families of the victims he profited by lying about.
These people make us sick, but enjoy the episode!
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| 0:00.0 | There are No Girls on the Internet as a production of IHeart Radio and Unbossed Creative. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
| 0:17.1 | So we have a little news on the slow downfall of the platform formerly known as Twitter. |
| 0:22.2 | Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been let back on Twitter after being banned from the social media platform and, honestly, most social media platforms, for the last five years. |
| 0:32.5 | Back when Elon Musk first took over Twitter, he started letting a bunch of people who had been previously banned |
| 0:38.0 | back on, including Donald Trump. And when he was asked if he'd be letting Alex Jones back on, |
| 0:43.8 | he said that he would never do that because he had a baby that passed away and he would never |
| 0:47.7 | allow someone who profited from lies about dead children, which Alex Jones did about Sandy Hook, |
| 0:56.9 | back on the platform. Tucker Carlson, |
| 1:03.5 | formerly a Fox News host who, I guess now hosts some kind of a show on Twitter, did a 90-minute interview with Alex Jones, where Jones returning to Twitter came up. It was really clear that |
| 1:08.8 | Alex Jones wants to be back on social media. And I guess this |
| 1:13.2 | whole conversation about him coming back to Twitter must have changed Elon Musk's mind. |
| 1:18.4 | Because Elon Musk did one of those easily gamified, totally unscientific polls on Twitter, |
| 1:24.2 | asking people whether or not Alex Jones should be left back on the platform. |
| 1:28.3 | Side note, I just have to say, I hate it when Elon Musk does those polls. |
| 1:33.4 | It seems like an attempt to put the onus of whatever he wants to do on the people who vote, |
| 1:38.2 | and then blame them for driving the direction of his business, like totally spineless. |
| 1:43.5 | Anyway, the choice to let Alex Jones |
| 1:45.7 | back on Twitter does not bode well for the platform, and it feels like just another signal |
| 1:50.6 | that the platform is being overrun by the worst types of grifters, liars, and scam artists. |
| 1:56.0 | Just like back when Elon Musk was promoting anti-Semitism, it feels like a new low for the platform |
| 2:01.7 | where people, not to mention advertisers, just don't want to be associated with it anymore. |
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