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Twitter has banned InfoWars personality Owen Shroyer for using Twitter and its live-video subsidiary Periscope to promote a rally on Saturday in Austin, TX against the state’s stay-at-home order during COVID-19. Shroyer this week conducted live streams in which he derided the virus response as a “deep-state&#8221…

Broadcast and cable networks once again provided coverage of Monday’s impeachment hearing, and there was some drama at the top. A protester interrupted the proceedings by shouting about the House Judiciary Committee’s chairman, Jerry Nadler. “We voted for Donald Trump, and they’re simply removing him because they…

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…

Former Donald Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone admitted, as part of a settlement in a defamation suit, that he used the right-wing conspiracy-theory website InfoWars to spread lies and misinformation. As part of a settlement, Stone agreed to buy newspaper ads and publish a statement on his Facebook and Instagram…

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…