Twitter is permanently banning conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his website InfoWars from its platform, citing abusive behavior.
“Today, we permanently suspended @realalexjones and @infowars from Twitter and Periscope,” Twitter’s safety team tweeted on Thursday.
“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,” Twitter added.
The company had previously issued a seven-day suspension for Jones last month.
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
The company noted that it would “take action” if Jones attempted to circumvent the ban.
Jones and Infowars’s accounts had a combined 1.5 million followers.
A Twitter spokesperson confirmed to The Daily Beast that Jones was suspended for a Periscope video he posted in which he berates CNN reporter Oliver Darcy.
“Those are the eyes of a rat,” Jones told Darcy in the video. Jones also called the CNN reporter “the equivalent of like the Hitler Youth” and said that he smiles “like a possum that crawled out of the rear end of a dead cow.”
The confrontation happened Wednesday in a Senate office building outside of the room where Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testified before lawmakers on foreign election influence. Dorsey later testified that day before the House on alleged anti-conservative bias in tech.
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Twitter permanently bans Alex Jones and Infowars https://t.co/uZCauh8GeY pic.twitter.com/72byiAo9aA
— The Hill (@thehill) September 6, 2018
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