Twitter has permanently suspended InfoWars and Alex Jones, just a month after all other giant tech companies like Facebook, Youtube, and Apple removed the conspiracy theorist and his blog from their platforms. Following the recent suspension of both accounts for a week, Twitter said that the InfoWars creator had violated its “abusive behavior” rules.
Twitter finally realize that Jones went too far after he tweeted a video of himself confronting a CNN reporter, calling him an equivalent of “the Hitler Youth” and using other illegal imagery to disparage him.
Twitter has been hesitated with what to do about Jones for some weeks. In August, Facebook wiped out multiple pages Jones manage, Apple banned Jones podcast (but still kept InfoWar app in its App store), and YouTube deleted his channel due to his hate speech toward immigrants and minorities. Twitter was the only tech company that still hesitating on what to do.
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
In response to Twitter’s decision to suspend Jones account for a week in the mid-August, users on Twitter mobilized and started a campaign by Grab Your Wallet founder Shannon Coulter. Users decided to block a list of Fortune 500 companies through a tool and prevent their ads from appearing on timelines, as a way to push Twitter to act faster.
.@Jack, from the bottom of my heart: thank you. This will make the lives of a lot of people tangibly better. I will now unblock every company on the #BlockParty500 list. All: if you've been manually blocking as a part of this effort, pls. manually unblock. https://t.co/axHcdBu9f9
— Shannon Coulter (@shannoncoulter) September 6, 2018
Yesterday, after Twitter announced the permanent suspension on Jones and his associated accounts, Coulter tweeted that she was unblocking the Fortune 500 companies on her tool that users were using. She later asked others to unblock those companies as well.
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