Elon Musk reinvites far-right pundit Nick Fuentes on X

Billionaire and X owner Elon Musk announced Thursday that Nick Fuentes, a hard-right political commentator, will have his account on the social media platform reinstated.

The reinstatement of Fuentes’s X account comes almost three years after it was suspended in July 2021, with his account briefly being reinstated in January 2023 before getting suspended a day later.

“Very well, he will be reinstated, provided he does not violate the law, and let him be crushed by the comments and Community Notes,” Musk posted on X. “It is better to have anti whatever out in the open to be rebutted than grow simmering in the darkness.”

Musk’s comment comes as many have labeled Fuentes as being antisemitic for his views on the Jewish community, including his denial of parts of the Holocaust. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has also deemed Fuentes a white supremacist in a court document.

The commentator, who has been a major advocate of former President Donald Trump, had dinner with the former president and rapper Kanye West in November 2022, causing controversy due to how West himself had made several antisemitic statements. Trump stated after the dinner that he did not know who Fuentes was, a statement Fuentes confirmed.

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Many controversial people and commentators have had their accounts on X reinstated since Musk purchased the platform, as Musk has stressed the importance of free speech. Among the controversial people to have their accounts reinstated is Alex Jones, a political commentator who once claimed that the Sandy Hook school shooting in 2012 was a hoax.

Similarly, X also restored the account of social media influencer Andrew Tate under Musk’s leadership. Tate had his account suspended in 2017 after he alleged in a discussion about Harvey Weinstein that women “bear some responsibility” for being sexually assaulted.