Prominent civil rights attorney Sherrilyn Ifill announced she is leaving X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, due to the Elon Musk-owned platform reinstating far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s account.
Ifill, a former president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, announced her departure from the platform after encountering a post that mentioned the life and memory of Ana Grace Márquez-Greene, one of the 20 children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre.
“Alex Jones tortured these families who suffered the unimaginable. He has monstrously led a campaign of gaslighting and assault on the spirit of Sandy Hook families & desecrated the memory of those murdered children,” Ifill wrote in an X thread Sunday. “He is a ghoul. His return to this site completes its utter degradation. We are in a war for the human soul.”
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Civil rights lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill leaving X after Alex Jones account reinstated
