Alex Jones of Infowars talks to the media while visiting the U.S. Senate's Dirksen Senate office building as Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testifies before a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., September 5, 2018. Twitter permanently banned Jones and Infowars from its platforms September 6 over his actions seen on Twitter while visiting the building. Picture taken September 5, 2018. REUTERS/Jim Bourg
NEW YORK: Twitter’s permanent ban of conspiracy-monger Alex Jones on Sept 6 again underscored the difficulty many social-media services face in trying to consistently apply their rules against harassment and other bad behaviour.
The platform took action against Jones and his Infowars show for “abusive behaviour”, referencing videos posted Sept 5 that showed him berating CNN journalist Oliver Darcy for some 10 minutes between two congressional hearings on social media.
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