Twitter permanently bans Alex Jones and InfoWars
Even as other tech giants like Facebook and YouTube had banned Alex Jones, Twitter had hesitated with what to do about Jones
A month after Apple, Facebook, and YouTube removed Alex Jones from their platforms, Twitter has followed suit and permanently suspended the conspiracy theorist and his InfoWars from the microblogging site.
According to Twitter, the Infowars creator had violated its “abusive behavior” rules and many of his tweets violated that policy. Jones was also banned from Periscope, a Twitter-owned live-streaming platform.
Today, we permanently suspended @realalexjones and @infowars from Twitter and Periscope. We took this action based on new reports of Tweets and videos posted yesterday that violate our abusive behavior policy, in addition to the accounts’ past violations. https://t.co/gckzUAV8GL
— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) September 6, 2018