{"id":2235906,"date":"2024-05-02T18:33:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T22:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-reinstating-hard-right-commentator-nick-fuentes-on-x\/"},"modified":"2024-05-02T18:34:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T22:34:21","slug":"elon-musk-reinstating-hard-right-commentator-nick-fuentes-on-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-reinstating-hard-right-commentator-nick-fuentes-on-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk reinvites far-right pundit Nick Fuentes on X"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felon-musk-reinstating-hard-right-commentator-nick-fuentes-on-x%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2235906&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Elon Musk, \u2063billionaire and X owner, announced the reinstatement \u2064of\u2062 hard-right commentator Nick \u200cFuentes&#8217;s \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arkansas-social-media-parental-consent-law-is-blocked-at-the-last-minute\/\" title=\"Arkansas Parental Consent Law for Social Media Blocked Last Minute\">social\u2063 media account<\/a>. Fuentes&#8217;s account was suspended in July 2021, briefly reinstated in January 2023,\u200d and suspended again. Musk emphasized the importance \u200bof <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/equity-leadership-coach-blasts-federalist-intern-for-writing-accurate-unflattering-article\/\" title=\"Equity \u2018Leadership Coach\u2019 Blasts Federalist Intern For Writing Accurate, Unflattering Article\">open discourse<\/a> but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/south-dakota-lowers-unemployment-to-pre-pandemic-levels-after-state-rejected-lockdowns\/\" title=\"South Dakota Lowers Unemployment to Pre-Pandemic Levels After State Rejected Lockdowns\">faced criticism<\/a> for\u200d supporting a figure labeled as antisemitic and a white supremacist by the FBI. Elon Musk, a\u2062 billionaire and\u200c the owner of X, revealed \u2063the reinstatement of Nick Fuentes, a hard-right commentator, on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">social media<\/a>. Fuentes\u200b faced suspensions in July 2021 and January \u200b2023. Musk defended open discussion \u2062but received backlash \u200cfor backing a controversial figure \u200caccused of antisemitism\u200c and white supremacy by the FBI.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_78\">\n<p>Billionaire and X owner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/elon-musk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Elon Musk<\/a> announced Thursday that Nick Fuentes, a hard-right <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-detailed-inventory-on-election-fraud-in-the-2020-election-by-deroy-murdock-provides-strong-evidence-on-president-trumps-performance-in-all-the-swing-states-and-overall-race\/\" title=\"New Detailed Inventory on Election Fraud in the 2020 Election by Deroy Murdock Provides Strong Evidence on President Trump\u2019s Performance in All the Swing States and Overall Race\">political commentator<\/a>, will have his account on the social media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/social-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>platform<\/a> reinstated.<\/p>\n<p>The reinstatement of Fuentes\u2019s X account comes almost three years after it was suspended in July 2021, with his account <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/twitter-suspends-account-white-supremacist-nick-fuentes-day-after-restoration-2023-01-25\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>briefly being reinstated in January 2023 before getting suspended a day later<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cVery well, he will be reinstated, provided he does not violate the law, and let him be crushed by the comments and Community Notes,\u201d Musk posted on X. \u201cIt is better to have anti whatever out in the open to be rebutted than grow simmering in the darkness.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<blockquote data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Very well, he will be reinstated, provided he does not violate the law, and let him be crushed by the comments and Community Notes. <\/p>\n<p>It is better to have anti whatever out in the open to be rebutted than grow simmering in the darkness.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1786087574655611386?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Musk\u2019s comment comes as many have labeled Fuentes as being antisemitic for his views on the Jewish community, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jackbrewster\/2021\/07\/09\/twitter-bans-white-nationalist-leader-nick-fuentes-ally-of-arizona-republican-rep-gosar\/?sh=5bd433b449f7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>including his denial of parts of the Holocaust<\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/fbi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Federal Bureau of Investigation<\/a> has also deemed Fuentes a white supremacist in a court document.<\/p>\n<p>The commentator, who has been a major advocate of former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump<\/a>, had dinner with the former president and rapper Kanye West in November 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/1527795\/trump-reportedly-lashed-out-at-kanye-west-for-mar-a-lago-dinner-ambush-he-tried-to-f-me\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>causing controversy<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many controversial people and commentators have had their accounts on X reinstated since Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/1738588\/elon-musk-officially-takes-over-twitter-as-ceo-and-cfo-leave-building\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"purchased\">purchased<\/a> the platform, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/technology\/2925455\/elon-musk-value-free-speech-don-lemon-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Musk has stressed the importance of free speech<\/a>. Among the controversial people to have their accounts reinstated is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/alex-jones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Alex Jones<\/a>, a political commentator who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2022\/10\/12\/alex-jones-sandy-hook-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>once claimed that the Sandy Hook school shooting in 2012 was a hoax<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, X also restored the account of social media influencer Andrew Tate under Musk\u2019s leadership. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/1459161\/year-in-review-johnny-depp-kari-lake-among-the-10-most-googled-people-of-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Tate had his account suspended in 2017<\/a> after he alleged in a discussion about Harvey Weinstein that women \u201cbear some responsibility\u201d for being sexually assaulted.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk, billionaire and X owner, shared that hard-right commentator Nick Fuentes will regain access to the platform. Fuentes&#8217;s account was suspended in July 2021 and briefly reinstated in January 2023 before another suspension. Musk&#8217;s decision marks Fuentes&#8217;s return after almost three years of absence from the social media platform<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2632,"featured_media":2235907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP22333604906779-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2235906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP22333604906779-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2235906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2235907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2235906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2235906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2235906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}