‘Thank You, Elon’: Nick Fuentes, Who Called For Death Penalty For Jews, Has His X Account Restored

Nick Fuentes has been accused by American news media outlets of antisemitism, Holocaust denial and white supremacist views.

Nick Fuentes thanked social media site X’s CEO Elon Musk for restoring his X (formerly Twitter) account on Saturday.

“Thank you Elon Musk for reinstating my account and upholding your commitment to free speech. I have been censored on every major platform for +3 years. Much has been said about me in that time by groups like ADL and SPLC… I look forward to reintroducing myself in my own words!” Fuentes said after his account was restored.

Fuentes was referring to the Southern Poverty Law Centre (SPLC) and Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in his tweet.

Musk noted the reuqests and assured X users that Fuentes account will be reinstated provided that he does not violate the law. “It is better to have anti whatever out in the open to be rebutted than grow simmering in the darkness,” Musk wrote.

Notably, Hannah Gais, a senior researcher at Southern Poverty Law Center, last year told news agency Reuters in 2023, shortly after his account was banned, that Fuentes made several antisemitic comments. His account was briefly restored last year but was banned following an outrage among netizens.

The white supremacist was suspended from several social media platforms for hate speech in 2020 and 2021, including Facebook and YouTube, in addition to Twitter (now known as X), according to a report by Reuters.

Fuentes made headlines in 2022 when Donald Trump hosted him and Ye, the critically acclaimed rapper-singer-songwriter, formerly known as Kanye West, at his private club in Florida. The former US president said that the meeting happened inadvertently.

Ye has also drawn widespread criticism, for a spate of antisemitic comments and was suspended recently from social media platforms.