NEW YORK — (Scroll Down For Video) — Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his company InfoWars were ‘permanently banned’ from Twitter Thursday, the tech giant announced.
Twitter explained their decision in a statement, saying: “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.”
“As we continue to increase transparency around our rules and enforcement actions, we wanted to be open about this action given the broad interest in this case. We do not typically comment on enforcement actions we take against individual accounts, for their privacy.”
“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.”
BREAKING: Twitter Permanently Bans Alex Jones, InfoWars: “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.”
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) September 6, 2018
The video Twitter is referencing is footage in which Jones berated CNN reporter Oliver Darcy on Capitol Hill. Watch below.
Earlier in the day, Jones got into a heated exchange with Senator Marco Rubio.
On the InfoWars website, Jones reacted.
