Alex Jones has gained nearly a million followers in the days following his triumphant return to X, much to the horror of the mainstream media.
The Southern Poverty Law Center on Friday lamented how quickly Jones amassed over 800,000 followers since his reinstatement to X last weekend.
“Twitter suspended Jones’s account on Sept. 6, 2018, and archives show Jones with roughly 900,000 followers at that time. Jones initially signed up for Twitter in 2010. It took Jones eight years to reach 900,000 – and in span of days, he nearly doubled it to 1.7 million,” wrote Michael Edison Hayden.
The @RealAlexJones account now has 1.8 million followers on X as of this writing.
SPLC however, argued without evidence that the majority of those new followers could be “bots.”
Musk has claimed that under his leadership, X is prioritizing the removal of “bots,” software that impersonates human followers on social media platforms, but critics dispute whether anything has substantially changed since he rebranded Twitter. An August story from Mashable found that accounts with zero followers swarmed to Musk, composing over 70% of his follower count. It is unclear how many of Jones’s new followers are active, individual human users of X. Still, the increase of visibility buoys the career of one of America’s most notorious radical-right propagandists when he needs the help.
A so-called “disinformation” expert warned SPLC that Jones returning to X “exponentially” expands his and Infowars’ reach, and completes a “full-spectrum information war” nexus with the likes of Tucker Carlson, whose show airs exclusively on X after Fox News fired him.
“[Jones’s return] exponentially expands the reach of hate, harassment and incitement. But it doesn’t take a sociologist to connect the dots between Musk-Tucker Carlson-Alex Jones Redux,” Joan Donovan, co-author of Meme Wars, told SPLC.
“In so many ways, these men all need each other to represent a full-spectrum information war, where the public are all tuned into Channel Z, led by this alternative influence network.”
Jones announced Wednesday a new show called Alex Jones on X, featuring his seminal documentary “Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement” as his first episode.
Episode 1 ALEX JONES ON ?: @X Premier of Documentary ‘ENDGAME: Blueprint for Global Enslavement’ — PLUS Deep State Pushing Martial Law — MUST WATCH! pic.twitter.com/QnOxB9mbJo
— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) December 14, 2023
This groundbreaking exposé against the New World Order has already garnered 3 million views on X alone.
»» ??????? 1 ???? ???????: ‘Deep State Pushing Martial Law’ If time is of the essence, this news segment offers a quick yet essential overview of recent events. pic.twitter.com/AkiewSlx7H
— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) December 14, 2023
The mainstream media has been freaking out over Jones’ return to X now that they no longer have a monopoly on the flow of information online.
