Twitter Temporarily Suspends Alex Jones After Tweet Calling For Violence Against Media

America’s leading conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was finally suspended from Twitter, as he caught a week long tweeting ban for violating the company’s policies on violent rhetoric.

Jones, who has been banned or partially banned from nearly every other major social media platform, was hit with the suspension over a video in which he told viewers to use “battle rifles” against the mainstream media. As part of the suspension, Jones was forced to delete the post and cannot tweet or retweet for seven days, though he can still go through his timeline and isn’t completely locked out.

While other social media bans on Jones and his ilk targeted the pages for his website Infowars, the Twitter temporary ban did not impact the outlet’s account.

Other sites who have taken action against Infowars and Jones include YouTube, Apple, Facebook, Spotify, and Vimeo, all of which cited anti-hate or anti-violence policies when taking action against the conspiracy theorist. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey did not directly follow the other social media outlets in targeting Jones, as he claimed Infowars and Jones did not violate any of the site’s rules.

We didn’t suspend Alex Jones or Infowars yesterday. We know that’s hard for many but the reason is simple: he hasn’t violated our rules. We’ll enforce if he does. And we’ll continue to promote a healthy conversational environment by ensuring tweets aren’t artificially amplified.

— jack (@jack) August 8, 2018

However, after that tweet, reporters found that Jones had in fact violated Twitter’s rules and notified the company about it, which ultimately led to the temporary ban.

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