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PayPal has terminated its contract with Infowars, the conspiracy site run by controversial provocateur Alex Jones.
An Infowars article published on Friday indicates that the online payment processing company "gave Infowars 10 days to change the payment processor, after which all services would be terminated."
A spokesman for PayPal confirmed with Fortune after conducting an internal review, he plans to terminate his business relationship with Infowars and related sites such as PrisonPlanet.
"Our values are the basis of the decision," said the spokesman of PayPal in a statement. "We did a thorough review of Infowars' sites and found cases that encouraged discriminatory hatred or intolerance towards certain communities and religions, which is contrary to our core value of inclusion.
PayPal's decision to cut ties with Infowars is another blow to the site and Jones, who is currently facing multiple defamation suits for blaming the parents of children killed in the Sandy Hook shooting, was shot a hoax of the government.
Many technology companies recently banned Infowars from their respective services after years of letting Jones market conspiracy theories such as the infamous Pizzagate scandal that wrongly implicated US presidential candidate Hilary Clinton with a complicated with abuse.
Technology companies that have started Jones from their platforms include Facebook, YouTube, Spotify, MailChimp and Twitter.
Jones has long argued that his inflammatory remarks are within the limits of freedom of expression, while his critics accuse him of inciting and encouraging violence with his supporters against those he considers his opponents.
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Facebook said in July when it banned Jones that his "community standards clearly state that we prohibit content that encourages physical harm (harassment) or attacks a person because of his or her religious affiliation or sexual identity."
This is not the first time that PayPal has broken ties with a controversial organization.
In 2010, PayPal suspended a WikiLeaks alert service account that collected donations, stating when the account was operating in violation of PayPal's Acceptable Use Policy, which states that our payment service can not be used for activities to encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activities.
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