 Today, we permanently suspended @ realalexjones and @ infowars from Twitter and Periscope.  Twitter has permanently banned the accounts of right-wing conspiracy theorist and radio host Alex Jones and InfoWars for violating the company's abusive behavior policies, the company said Thursday. The company said Jones won't be able to create new accounts on Twitter or take over any existing ones. We took this action based on new reports of Tweets and videos posted yesterday that violate our abusive behavior policy, in addition to the accounts’ past violations.https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/abusive-behavior … Jones ranted at the reporter, as well as Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, following back-to-back congressional hearings where Dorsey addressed online election interference, as well as accusations of political bias and conservative censorship on the platform. Accounts for Jones and Infowars were also banned from Periscope. The ban comes weeks after Jones' accounts were removed or suspended by other major tech companies including Apple, Facebook and YouTube.
– Twitter has again suspended Alex Jones of InfoWars infamy. And this time it's permanent, CNN reports. "We took this action based on new reports of tweets and videos posted yesterday that violate our abusive behavior police, in addition to the accounts' past violations," Twitter tweeted on Thursday afternoon; InfoWars is also permanently banned. CNBC notes that the ban is related to a confrontation between Jones and a CNN reporter at Capitol Hill on Wednesday that was streamed live on Twitter's Periscope service. Jones berated Oliver Darcy for several minutes, the AP reports, at one point saying the journalist was smiling "like a possum that crawled out of the rear end of a dead cow" and mocking his "skinny jeans." Other social media platforms, including YouTube and Facebook, have previously given Jones the boot. However, Jones is reportedly back on Facebook as that ban has expired. Between his namesake Twitter account and the InfoWars account, Jones had about 1.3 million followers, per the AP.