Alex Jones and his InfoWars website was banned from a number of tech giants including Twitter, YouTube and Facebook. He was banned because he made a number of tweets that violated Twitter’s abusive behaviour policy. The radio host is notoriously known for spreading false rumours about tragic events.
He is currently being sued for defamation by the parents of two children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, which he has repeatedly claimed was a “giant hoax”. Twenty children under the age of seven and six adults died in the attack. Read on to know more about Alex Jones.
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Who Is Alex Jones?
Alex Jones mostly used his Twitter to share content and videos from InfoWars with his 850,000 followers. He promoted conspiracy theories against liberals, Muslims and migrants. Jones said that Democrats planned to launch a civil war on 4 July or US Independence Day.
Last year, he tweeted that Muslims in England were demanding that the Queen either convert to Islam or leave the country. However, the CNN clip Infowars based its article on dates back to 2009 and features a group led by radical preacher Anjem Choudary, who by 2017 was already serving a five-and-a-half-year sentence for inviting support for the Islamic State group (IS).
He has previously said that “transgenderism” is a CIA “plan to depopulate humanity” and that the “normalisation of mental illness” is an “evil paedophile plot to sexualise and destroy children”. In 2013, he described then-President Barack Obama as the “global head of al-Qaeda”, and later accused him of arming IS.
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Why Did Jones Get Banned From Twitter?
Jones and his various sites led purveyors of violent and sometimes racist (and anti-Semitic) conspiracy theories. Many tech companies banned his account this includes the tech giant Twitter. Twitter noted that it has “permanently suspended” conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his InfoWars outlet, citing “new reports of Tweets and videos posted yesterday that violate our abusive behavior policy.”
The tech company said they blocked Infowars not because of the conspiracy theories, but because, in Spotify’s words, Infowars “expressly and principally promotes, advocates, or incites hatred or violence against a group or individual based on characteristics.”
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