Twitter banned Alex Jones and Infowars from Twitte and Periscope

They 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.

Update: Alex Jones was banned for confronting CNN’s Oliver Darcy.

So Alex Jones got banned from Twitter for confronting a public figure (CNN's Oliver Darcy) about him encouraging platforms to censor Infowars, at a public even about that very issue. Unreal. — Mark Dice (@MarkDice) September 6, 2018

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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

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. — Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) September 6, 2018