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(Reuters) – Apple said on Friday that it had banned from its App Store the Infowars app belonging to the famous American conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, after finding that it had violated the company's rules against "objectionable content" .
This decision makes Apple the latest technology company or social media platform to take action against Jones, a highly controversial radio host who suggested that the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax amidst other sensational statements .
Apple said Jones's guidelines violate "defamatory, discriminatory or petty content, including references or comments about religion, race, sexual orientation, sex, national / ethnic origin or other targeted groups, especially if, intimidate or place a particular individual or group at risk.
Representatives of Jones could not be immediately contacted by Reuters on Friday night.
On Thursday, Twitter permanently banned Jones and his website from his platform and Periscope, declaring in a tweet that the accounts had violated his behavioral policies.
In a video posted on the Infowars website Thursday, Jones replied, "I was arrested, not because we had lied, but because we were telling the truth and because we were popular.
Last month, Twitter banned Jones and Infowars from staying for seven days, citing tweets that they said violated the company's rules against abusive behavior, according to which a user can not harass anyone or incite other people to do it.
Apple said at the time that the Infowars app had remained in its store because it had not been established that it violated any content rules, although it had removed access to certain podcasts by Jones.
Podcasts differ from the Infowars app by allowing access to an extensive list of previous episodes, by submitting all these episodes to Apple's content rules.
The Infowars application contains only repeats of the episodes of the current day, submitting a much narrower set of content to the rules. Apple said it regularly monitors all applications to detect content violations.
The parent Google alphabet Google, Facebook and Spotify also deleted the content produced by Jones.
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