YouTube bans Alex Jones, following Facebook and Apple’s lead
by Timothy B. Lee from Ars Technica - All content on (#3W9GX)
Enlarge / Alex Jones in Cleveland in 2016. (credit: Brooks Kraft/ Getty Images)
Conspiracy theorist and online troll Alex Jones got more bad news on Monday as YouTube banned Jones' channel on the platform.
"This account has been terminated for violating YouTube's Community Guidelines," a notice on Jones's YouTube channel states.
The decision comes hours after Apple and Facebook made similar moves. Early on Monday, Apple removed five of the six podcasts from Infowars, Alex Jones's site, from its popular podcast directory. Facebook followed suit, taking down four of Jones's most popular pages and effectively banning him from the site.
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