Alex Jones has been permanently banned from Twitter

He's gone for good.

Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been permanently banned from Twitter. Twitter announced the news through a series of tweets on Friday night. Jones and his company Info Wars are said to have breached Twitter's abusive behaviour policy. In one of the tweets, Twitter said: "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. https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1037804427992686593 https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1037804428877680640 They went on to say that they may not be finished banning accounts related to Jones and his company. https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1037804430006005760 Jones has previously been banned by Facebook for 30 days, and had a number of his videos pulled down by YouTube. One video that remains on YouTube is of Jones trying to convince his millions of viewers that the American government were poisoning their water with something a chemical that would turn consumers gay. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ePLkAm8i2s Clip via Rorschach watches anime The news comes hours after a bizarre video emerged of Alex Jones and popular Republican politician Marco Rubio nearly came to blows during a press conference. Rubio showed some restraint, but he nearly lost it at one point... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuC2tdSPMVg Clip via Guardian News