Elon Musk certainly wants to warn off whatever advertisers are left at Twitter.
On the platform he signaled “OK” when a crackpot right wing account published a poll saying conspiracy theorist Alex Jones should be allowed back on Twitter.
Musk wrote “OK.”
A new low, certainly. This may do the trick. Jones, whose “InfoWars” is still out there somewhere, currently owes the parents and families of Sandy Hook Elementary $965 million after a jury in a now famous defamation found he’d lied repeatedly to his listeners that the 2012 Connecticut school shooting was a fake.
“All made up. Hilarious,” Jones said when the jury read the outcome in October 2022. “So this is what a show trial looks like. I mean, this is the left completely out of control.”
The shooting rampage took the lives of 20 children and 6 adults. Immediately Jones began saying that the shooting never took place, and that the deaths were lied or staged. The Sandy Hook families sued him for defamation. InfoWars was removed from almost everywhere, and Jones became a pariah to everyone but his uneducated followers.
Since the $965 million decision, Jones has filed for bankruptcy and continues to evade having to pay the Sandy Hook group.
Musk’s comment is going to have a severe blowback. But on what? He’s already decimated Twitter? Will his Tesla car sales be affected? You’d think after this that Tesla owners would be embarrassed to be seen driving them. Is this the breaking point, or will it go lower? Musk is already in a deep set back after approving an anti-semitic Tweet that resulted in dozens of major advertisers leaving Twitter.
Musk’s response to unhappy advertisers: “Go f*ck yourselves.”
