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06th Sep 2018

Alex Jones has been permanently banned from Twitter

Rudi Kinsella

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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.

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…

Clip via Guardian News

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