Facebook has unpublished four pages belonging to conspiracy theorist and far-right radio host Alex Jones for "repeatedly posting content over the past several days" that violated the social media platform's community standards. Facebook on Monday announced that it had unpublished four pages belonging to Alex Jones for repeatedly violating the company's standards with inflammatory posts about transgender people, Muslims and immigrants, among other infractions. If you attempt to visit InfoWars videos on YouTube you’ll be greeted with the message, “this video is no longer available because the YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated.” Clips of Alex Jones saying unhinged things can still be found on the site if they were posted by other news organizations. And a Spotify spokesman confirmed Monday that “The Alex Jones Show has lost access to the Spotify platform.”

Jones is perhaps most famous for spreading the conspiracy theory that the 2012 mass school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, was a hoax. There are currently three defamation lawsuits against Jones by family members of the victims, though Jones has counter-sued for legal fees. "Due to repeated violations of Spotify’s prohibited content policies, The Alex Jones Show has lost access to the Spotify platform." Apple told BuzzFeed: “Apple does not tolerate hate speech, and we have clear guidelines that creators and developers must follow to ensure we provide a safe environment for all of our users.”

The company has not responded to a request for comment Monday about why one InfoWars podcast, “RealNews with David Knight,” remains on iTunes. Apple pointed Business Insider to the statement it provided BuzzFeed, in which it said it notified Jones of its plans to pull the podcasts under its hate-speech guidelines. "We believe in representing a wide range of views, so long as people are respectful to those with differing opinions.”

Links to "RealNews with David Knight" by Infowars remains on Apple's podcast apps. Similarly, Facebook said it removed four of Jones' page for repeatedly posting content that included "hate speech that attacks or dehumanizes others," the network said in a post on its website. In a blog post Monday, Facebook said it has unpublished the Alex Jones Channel Page, the Alex Jones Page, the InfoWars Page and the Infowars Nightly News Page for “repeated violations of Community Standards and accumulating too many strikes.” It took further action beyond last week’s removal of videos from each of the four pages after more reports about the content on those pages, the company said. "Upon review, we have taken it down for glorifying violence, which violates our graphic violence policy, and using dehumanizing language to describe people who are transgender, Muslims and immigrants, which violates our hate speech policies," the statement said in part. Spreading false news wasn't reason enough to boot a user from the site, its executives said. At the same time, Facebook has been criticized by conservatives for what they perceive as a liberal bias against conservative outlets.
Facebook removes several InfoWars-related pages from its platform, for what it describes as glorification of violence and dehumanizing language. YouTube deletes Alex Jones's main account for repeated Terms of Service violations. Apple and Spotify pull Jones's podcasts. Editor Paul Joseph Watson calls Facebook's move "political censorship" on Twitter.