Following Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey promised to “clean up the toxic environment” from the micro-blogging site, the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his fake news website Infowars accounts have officially been banned.
After the hard hitten action, the company explained their move in a bunch of tweets.
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
We 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 is reported or if other accounts are utilized in an attempt to circumvent their ban.
— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) September 6, 2018
The ban immediately comes after a heated argument between CNN reporter, back in Wednesday which Alex Jones live streamed on Periscope, a video streaming service by Twitter.
In a follow-up, the conspiracy theorist posted a video on its website and said, “I was taken down not because we lied but because we tell the truth and because we were popular.”
Alex Jones is known for some pretty absurd theories like Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was “completely faked with actors”. Also, how Barak Obama and Hillary Clinton are followers of Satan.
Twitter had previously banned the guy for seven days citing a bunch of tweets which violated the policy. However, the company was previously reluctant to completely ban Alex Jones, saying they didn’t have enough offensive content to take such critical steps.
InfoWars and Alex Jones have already been banned from other tech giants like Apple, Spotify, Facebook, Youtube. Everyone citing that the content didn’t go with their policies and had to be taken off.
Interestingly, Twitter says that Jones will not be able to recreate another account on the social media website and on Periscope as well.
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