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Elon Musk invoked the memory of his late infant child when explaining why he won’t allow conspiracy theorist Alex Jones back onto the social media platform.
Jones, the host of the popular Infowars podcast, repeatedly told his millions of followers the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre that killed 20 first graders and six educators was a hoax that was staged by “crisis actors” to enact more gun control.
Last month, Jones was ordered to pay in excess of $1.44 billion in damages to the families of the victims.
“My firstborn child died in my arms,” Musk tweeted in response to Kim Dotcom, the internet entrepreneur, who implored the new Twitter boss to restore the Jones’s account.
“I felt his last heartbeat,” Musk tweeted, adding: “I have no mercy for anyone who would use the deaths of children for gain, politics or fame.”
Dotcom, the German-born founder of the now-defunct file hosting service Megaupload who is wanted by the Justice Department for crimes including copyright infringement and racketeering, urged Musk to allow Jones back onto Twitter “in the interest of real free speech.
