NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter says it is suspending the account of the far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for one week after he violated the company’s rules against inciting violence.
The New York Times reports that Jones tweeted a link to a video calling for supporters to get their “battle rifles” ready against media and others.
Jones won’t be able to tweet or retweet from his personal account for seven days, though he will be able to browse Twitter.
The Twitter account for his “Infowars” show was not affected.
Facebook, Apple, YouTube and Spotify have taken down material published by Jones, reflecting more aggressive enforcement of hate speech policies after online backlash.
But Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey defended his company’s decision last week not to ban Jones, saying he did not break any rules.
Ouch, that’s gonna leave a week mark…
Dorsey and the gold-plated horse he parades around on.
Dorsey’s got a point. I mean, if you’re not going to ban Hair Furor for the vile shit HE posts, Alex Jones is comparatively weak sauce!
/snark
Jack needs the right-wing’s money or his company turns to dust.
What’s the cure rate percentage on troll suspensions? Do we know that? Very low single digits just by my own observations. Like 0–1, somewhere in there.