Elon Musk pushed back against calls to restore far-right commentator and controversial radio host Alex Jones’ account on the social media platform.
he was working with leaders from major civil society groups like the Anti Defamation League, the NAACP, the Asian American Foundation and several others to formulate policies to tackle hate and harassment.from Twitter back in 2018 for violating the platform’s abusive behavior policy.
Twitter was among the last major platforms to ban Alex Jones and the account of his InfoWars website from its platform after facing weeks of criticism for failing to act against him. Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s co-founder and its CEO at the time initially refused to ban Jones saying that he had not violated any of the platform’s rules. However, the hammer eventually fell after Jones streamed videos of himself on Twitter heckling several people including CNN journalist Oliver Darcy and Sen.
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