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Controversial far-right political commentator and livestreamer Nick Fuentes is set to return to X.
Elon Musk, who will be the platform’s CEO from 2022, said, “It’s better to keep any antis out in the open so they can be refuted than to let them grow slowly in the dark.” ” he wrote.
As long as he doesn’t violate the law, he will be reinstated, and I don’t care if he gets killed by comments or community notes.
It is better to have whatever is refuted out in the open than to let it smolder in the dark.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 2, 2024
Fuentes’ extremist past includes attending a white supremacist rally in Virginia in 2017, criticizing interracial marriage, and defending Jim Crow-era racism. It includes things you have done.
Anti-Defamation League Describe Fuentes as white supremacist, anti-semiteand 2020 election deniers are “trying to create a white supremacist alternative to the mainstream Republican Party.”
Fuentes denied the Holocaust and said “faithful Jews” should be executed. era of israel I will report it.
He also praised Hitler, calling him “cool.”
When Elon Musk acquired X for $44 billion in October 2022, he set out to defend free speech absolutism on the platform.
Accounts of controversial figures such as Donald Trump, Kanye West, Jordan Peterson, and Andrew Tate have been restored.
Musk has held firm to his absolutist views, even doubling down when faced with heavy criticism. Advertiser has withdrawn from the platform In 2023.
When Musk first took over the platform, use of the N-word spiked nearly 500% as trolls tested the limits of free speech.
Nick Fuentes’ flirtation with hate speech means that his relationship with X and Twitter was rocky even before that. He was first banned from Twitter in December 2021 for violating moderation rules, and then re-banned in October 2022 after creating a new account under Musk’s guidance.
At the time, Musk said he didn’t want social media platforms to become “all-you-can-do hellscapes.”
Fuentes made a brief return in January 2023, but was suspended again one day after his return. Reuters I will report it.
his Last post On January 25, 2023, before reappearing this week, he posted an anti-Semitic chart showing which media figures had Jewish ancestry. The image is titled “Who is in control of your mind?”
Business Insider’s Kathryn Tangarakis-Lippert notes that similar support for free speech is not seen by Musk’s critics, even though he is a self-confessed “free speech absolutist.” It was reported that it did not reach that level.
Tangarakis Lippert said Musk threatened to sue bloggers who published critical coverage of the mogul and fired employees who disagreed with him.