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Facebook’s decision earlier this week to ban seven far-right figures, including “Infowars” host Alex Jones, has drawn fire from Fox News host Laura Ingraham and conservative filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza. The Death of a Nation director appeared on The Ingraham Angle, where the two discussed the social media giant’s…

Desperate for some good press, Facebook announced Thursday it had designated Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos, and other right-wing extremists as "dangerous" and would jettison them from Facebook and Instagram, which is owned by the social media giant. Playing catch-up with other platforms, Facebook added to its banned…

UPDATED to reflect Roku’s decision to pull InfoWars, 5:30 PM: Roku said it is removing Alex Jones’ InfoWars channel from the Roku Channel Store following online backlash. Months after being banned by Facebook, YouTube, Spotify and other major Internet platforms, InfoWars found new online distribution through the Roku…

PayPal has canceled the accounts of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' Infowars website, citing alleged incidents of hate speech and discriminatory content. The termination continues Jones’s recent string of hi-tech clashes. He has been canceled by numerous social media accounts for his controversial stances on such…

Twitter permanently suspended far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones from the platform, citing tweets and videos that violate the service’s ban on abusive behavior. The decision comes a day after Jones accosted Sen. Marco Rubio outside the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing yesterday, crashing the Florida…

Sen. Marco Rubio and InfoWars gadfly Alex Jones got into a verbal altercation that threatened to turn physical in an odd spectacle that unfolded in front of a cluster of reporters interviewing Rubio. Rubio, a Republican from Florida, serves on the Senate Intelligence Committee, which questioned Facebook COO Sheryl…

UPDATED to clarify that Alex Jones is not involved in the station. A pirate radio station in Texas that broadcast conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s show has dropped off the air amid an intensifying fight with the FCC. The Department of Justice filed suit against Walter and Rae Olenick, accusing them of operating an…

FCC chairman Ajit Pai today defended the agency’s decision to crack down on a pirate radio station in Texas that broadcast conservative theorist Alex Jones’ show. The agency attracted criticism, and praise, for removing the right-wing commentator from the airwaves, Pai said in testimony this morning before the…

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey defended the company’s decision to give conspiracy theorist Alex Jones a seven-day “time out” after the right-wing commentator urged viewers to get their “battle rifles” ready against the media. Dorsey told NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt that Twitter needs to respond to such incitements to…

Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones today used Twitter to lash out at the platform for temporarily suspending his personal account, claiming he did not threaten violence against the media. A clearly agitated Jones claimed his remarks, in which he urged supporters to get their “battle rifles ready,” was intended…

UPDATED with details of a coming NBC Nightly News interview with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey: The video streaming site Vimeo is the latest platform to remove content from far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his media organization InfoWars, following similar moves by the likes of Facebook, Apple and Spotify. The…

Twitter is refusing to ban Alex Jones and his InfoWars account, even though the service concedes he has violated the company’s rules. A Twitter spokesperson said the company investigated a report by CNN that InfoWars and Jones tweets violated its terms of service, and found seven tweets that were not within…