Alex Jones and Nick Fuentes taken off YouTube hours after rejoining despite MAGA reinstatement hopes

Newly created YouTube accounts for the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and far-right commentator Nick Fuentes were both taken down hours after their creation, despite anticipation that the platform would begin reinstating banned accounts.

“The censorship war is still on it looks like,” Breanna Morello of Jones’s Infowars network said in a video on Thursday. “They’re trying to stop Infowars. They’re trying to stop Alex Jones.”

“Sounds a little ridiculous,” Fuentes wrote on X. “Can’t we just have free speech? I’ve been banned since February 2020 when I was 21 years old.”