Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60Fxz-NL5hA

Summary: https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/11/23996605/elon-musk-alex-jones-unban-x-twitter-conspiracy-theory

On their live audio call on X, Musk asked Jones to explain his comments on Sandy Hook. “Denying the murders of children, that’s not cool, at all,” Musk said. “So just what exactly did you say and what is going on with that situation?”

Those answers are available in court records and would confirm that Jones did in fact deny the murders of children and promote the conspiracy theory that their families were actors. Instead, Musk allowed Jones to rewrite the story. Jones proceeded to misrepresent his own statements on Sandy Hook, falsely claiming he had largely been covering remarks made by “professors” and “school safety people.”

Later in the call, Musk and Jones were joined by an array of other speakers from the very-online circuit, including Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, conspiracy theorist and former Trump advisor Michael Flynn, US Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL), VC and podcast host Jason Calacanis, and influencer Andrew Tate, who earlier this year was charged with rape and human trafficking.

Ramaswamy praised getting to know Jones as “eye opening” and supported his return to X. “There are people who have ... made some mistakes, said some things that were wrong, and said some other things that were dead right that nobody else was saying either,” he said of Jones.

Jones used portions of the call to rail against (and argue about the definition of) “globalists” and peppered in language about “world government” and “social credit scores.” Mostly, though, he spent a lot of time praising Musk. “I’m not kissing ass here,” Jones said. “Elon, you’ve got big ones, man, on every front.”

The unbanning of Jones comes less than a month after Musk endorsed tweets that promoted white nationalist viewpoints and antisemitic conspiracy theories. His remarks led to yet another wave of advertisers departing X in response, which Musk blamed on the media ignoring his “clarifications” on his point of view.

Jones tried to draw comparisons between himself and Musk as two men who, in his view, were both being unfairly targeted for their past remarks. “It’s just like they misrepresent what you say, take one little thing and twist it, then say you need to apologize for it and just keep hammering it and hammering it,” Jones said.

Musk has increasingly courted far-right influencers to X under the banner of allowing free speech and open conversations. As he’s done so, he’s also started to endorse and promote some of their ideas. In November, he replied to a tweet endorsing the antisemitic “great replacement” conspiracy, calling it the “actual truth.”

By the time Calacanis popped onto the X audio call, asking Jones to explain his Sandy Hook comments once again, both Musk and Jones had heard enough. “I’m not gonna live in Groundhog Day,” Jones said, refusing to discuss his remarks further. Musk chimed in later, “It was answered ... I think people will eventually get tired of you answering the question.”