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Twitter users are protesting Alex Jones with a viral block list

Twitter users are protesting Alex Jones with a viral block list

6 years ago
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https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/16/17696674/twitter-block-list-alex-jones-shannon-coulter

Last week, we talked about why Facebook banned Alex Jones — and Twitter didn’t. Facebook saw that Jones, who had already violated any number of the platform’s rules, had no intention of reforming himself. Twitter said first that Jones had not broken any rules; and then — after a CNN’s Oliver Darcy showed the company a series of offending tweets — that he had, but not enough to get banned.

Late on Tuesday, Twitter took another half-step toward banning Jones — suspending him for a week, after posted a video on Twitter in which he encouraged his followers to get their “battle rifles” in anticipation of all-out war with his enemies.