Twitter Bans Alex Jones: Can It Stop the Spread of Fake News?
Twitter (TWTR) has forbidden US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his website Infowars from tweeting for seven days. The action was taken when Jones and his Infowars account violated the company’s anti-abusive rules by posting a video that reportedly had a segment provoking violence. Twitter deleted the video on August 15 and put a temporary seven-day time-out on Jones and Infowars, which means they cannot publicly post anything but can browse or directly send messages to their followers.