The founder of InfoWars, Alex Jones, suspended from Twitter

Twitter banned far right plot theorist Alex Jones and his InfoWars website from his platform Thursday afternoon, a month after many of his counterparts in Silicon Valley have done so.

Jones was suspended from Twitter for a week last month after posting a video in which he said, "Now is the time to act on the enemy before he makes a false flag." But Twitter did not ban him from his platform so even after YouTube, Apple and Facebook launched it.

In one series of tweets On Twitter, @TwitterSafety, said: "Today, we have permanently suspended @realalexjones and @infowars from Twitter and Periscope, and we have taken this action based on new" previous breaches "account reports.

Twitter also said it will "take action" if, in the future, it uncovers other accounts used to circumvent the ban on Jones and InfoWars.

The company made the decision one day after Jones approached CNN reporter Oliver Darcy at Capitol Hill and survived the Periscope meeting, which Twitter owns.

Jones and InfoWars are known to have spread conspiracy theories and other obviously false information, including the idea that the Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax, and that the victims were children. Some of the relatives of the victims sued Jones for mental and emotional distress.

Jones traveled to Washington Wednesday for congressional hearings, where Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter, and Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's operations director, testified.

Before going to Darcy, Jones confronted Senator Marco Rubio in a hallway outside the room where Dorsey and Sandberg were appearing for a hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Jones repeatedly interrupted Rubio as the senator answered questions from reporters. After Jones tapped his shoulder on Rubio, the senator warned, "Hey, do not touch me anymore, man."

Later, he found Darcy outside of a room where Dorsey was to appear before the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Darcy's report had already raised questions about the rules and statements of tech companies regarding their battles against misinformation, and whether these were consistent with their ability to allow Jones and InfoWars to use their platforms. forms. For example, after Dorsey himself tweeted that Twitter was not banning Jones, as his counterparts had done because he had not broken our rules, a Darcy investigation allowed Twitter to admit that at least seven tweets had broken his rules.

Jones shouted at Darcy for more than ten minutes, accusing him of being in favor of censorship and insulting his appearance, of comparing him to a "rat" and telling Darcy he was "naughty." Jones was live on Periscope's Twitter service all the time.

CNNMoney (New York) First published September 6, 2018: 4:46 PM ET