Alex Jones Permanently Suspended From Twitter

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After weeks of deplatforming efforts by social media companies, Infowars founders Alex Jones has lost his last refuge: Twitter.  Twitter took the unusual step of confirming its ban of both Alex Jones and Infowars via the Twitter Safety account, citing abusive behavior.

 

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 5: Alex Jones of InfoWars talks to reporters outside a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing concerning foreign influence operations’ use of social media platforms, on Capitol Hill, September 5, 2018 in Washington, DC. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg faced questions about how foreign operatives use their platforms in attempts to influence and manipulate public opinion.

 

After weeks of deplatforming efforts by social media companies, Infowars founders Alex Jones has lost his last refuge: Twitter.

Twitter took the unusual step of confirming its ban of both Alex Jones and Infowars via the Twitter Safety account, citing abusive behavior.

 

 

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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

 

According to a Twitter spokesperson speaking with The Daily Beast, the impetus for the suspension stems from an altercation between Jones and CNN reporter Oliver Darcy during yesterday’s Senate Intelligence Committee hearing. Video of the altercation was livestreamed on Twitter.

 

Before being banned, Jones’s Twitter page had accumulated nearly 900,000 followers, while the Infowars page had accrued around 430,000.

 

Jones was banned from a litany of services over the past month, including Spotify, YouTube, Vimeo, LinkedIn, and Facebook. Thus far, efforts to hold Jones accountable to the community guidelines of sites he leveraged have resulted in a nearly 50-percent loss of viewership to Infowars. Like YouTube, the accounts of some of Infowars’s other major players—including editor-at-large Paul Joseph Watson—remain active, though Twitter Safety states that the company will “continue to evaluate reports we receive regarding other accounts potentially associated with @realalexjones or @infowars and will take action if content that violates our rules.”

 

We’ve reached out to Twitter for comment and will update when we hear back.

 

This story is developing

 

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