On YouTube, a page for "The Alex Jones Channel" was "terminated" for breaching the Google subsidiary's code of conduct. | Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP technology Facebook, YouTube, Apple give InfoWars’ Alex Jones the boot

Facebook and YouTube have removed pages belonging to InfoWars' Alex Jones for violating their community standards, the latest tech platforms to take action against the notorious conspiracy theorist.

The main InfoWars and Alex Jones pages, as well as pages for the Alex Jones Channel and InfoWars Nightly News, have been taken off Facebook "for repeated violations of Community Standards and accumulating too many strikes," reads a blog post from Facebook's newsroom. The pages had been glorifying violence and promoting hate speech against transgender people, Muslims and immigrants, Facebook said.


On YouTube, a page for "The Alex Jones Channel" was "terminated" for breaching the Google subsidiary's own code of conduct.

Asked about the removal, a YouTube spokesperson said today, "When users violate these policies repeatedly, like our policies against hate speech and harassment or our terms prohibiting circumvention of our enforcement measures, we terminate their accounts."

Apple has also removed Alex Jones podcasts and episodes from iTunes and the Podcast app. Last week, Spotify said it had removed several episodes of a podcast by Jones from its streaming platform "for violating our hate content policy."

Picture-sharing platform Pinterest on Monday also removed InfoWars' page, which had over 10,000 followers.

"Consistent with our existing policies, we take action against accounts that repeatedly save content that could lead to harm," a Pinterest spokeswoman said, adding the company aims to "maintain a safe, useful and inspiring experience for our users."

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Tech companies have drawn fire in recent weeks for letting Jones stay on their platforms, even though he's a well-known conspiracy theorist who has famously called the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting a hoax.

Twitter is now the last major social network giving Jones and InfoWars an open platform. A spokesman for the company told POLITICO that InfoWars and related accounts aren't currently in violation of Twitter rules.

The moves could add fuel to conservatives' claims that tech platforms are silencing them. "This is a co-ordinated move ahead of the mid-terms to help Democrats. This is political censorship. This is culture war," InfoWars editor-at-large Paul Joseph Watson tweeted today.

