Twitter banned Infowars founder Alex Jones from the social media platform Thursday for violating its "abusive behavior" rules.
The company announced it had permanently suspended @realalexjones and @infowars from both Twitter and Periscope in reaction to a series of tweets including video footage of Jones confronting CNN reporter Oliver Darcy and calling him "the equivalent of like the Hitler Youth."
"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' previous violations," Twitter said in a statement.
A series of other provocations factored into Twitter's decision, the company said.
The move comes after Apple, Facebook and YouTube also banned the right-wing conspiracy theorist for propagating hate speech.
