Twitter bans Alex Jones

Twitter announced on Thursday it had permanently banned Infowars’ Alex Jones for a tweet that violated the company’s policy against “abusive behavior.” The social media giant said Jones won’t be able to create new accounts or take over any existing ones after he posted a 10-minute video on Wednesday of him berating CNN journalist Oliver Darcy outside a congressional hearing. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testified before members of Congress at the hearing, claiming his company does not suppress conservative viewpoints. In& early August, Dorsey defended his company’s decision not to suspend Jones’ accounts after Apple, Facebook, Spotify, and YouTube banned or deleted content from Jones. A week later, Twitter suspended Jones for seven days over a tweet urging followers to prepare their “battle rifles” for a Chinese Communist attack. Jones had about 900,000 followers on Twitter; Infowars had about 430,000.