Twitter has permanently banned the far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his website Infowars from the platform and from livestreaming service Periscope, the company said this afternoon.
“Today, we permanently suspended @RealAlexJones and @infowars from Twitter and Periscope,” the company said in a statement. “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.”
The company said it would take further action “if content that violates our rules is reported or if other accounts are utilized in an attempt to circumvent their ban.”
The decision comes a month after Twitter faced intense pressure to remove Jones from the platform when major tech companies like Apple, YouTube, Facebook, Spotify and Vimeo banned him or removed his content for various violations of their terms of service.
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