Twitter plays whac-a-mole with Alex Jones, suspends 18 linked accounts

Enlarge / Alex Jones in Cleveland in 2016. (credit: Brooks Kraft/ Getty Images)

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his company InfoWars may have had their accounts yanked from Twitter, but that has not erased their presence from the platform. According to a CNN report, Twitter took action on Monday and suspended 18 additional accounts associated with Jones and InfoWars. The decision came after the Daily Beast reported last week that numerous accounts were still sharing InfoWars' content.

All of the newly suspended accounts were "under the InfoWars umbrella," according to a statement from a Twitter spokesperson provided to CNET. Some of those suspended include the InfoWars Store account and the InfoWars "Real News" with David Knight show account.

Twitter claims that it banned the accounts in part because they were trying to circumvent the initial ban of Alex Jones' and InfoWars' primary accounts by sharing content from the conspiracy-theory outlet. The accounts reportedly received "numerous violations and warnings" before finally being suspended. This deluge of suspensions comes after Twitter reportedly already suspended five other accounts for disseminating InfoWars content.

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