InfoWars violated rules, but will remain on platform: Twitter

Twitter said the accounts belonging to US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his media organisation InfoWars will remain online for now one day after an investigation found that his accounts appeared to have repeatedly violated the companys rulesA Twitter spokesperson said the company concluded that of the more than a dozen tweets included in CNNs Thursday report seven were found to have violated Twitters rules CNNMoney reported on FridayCNNs investigation found that InfoWars and Jones Twitter accounts had published content that degraded groups of people on the basis of their religion and gender identity engaged in the harassment of individuals glorified violence and promoted conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook and Parkland shootingsTwitter would have required those tweets to be deleted if they were to have remained up the report saidBut after CNNs investigation was published the tweets cited in it were almost immediately deleted from the social media websiteJones said on his programme that he had instructed his staff to do so and take the super high road though he contested whether the tweets violated any Twitter rulesAmong the seven tweets found to have violated Twitters rules two of it occurred recently enough that Twitter could cite them in the future to take additional punitive action against Jones accounts the spokesperson saidThe other five tweets occurred before a set of bolstered Twitter rules were put into place in December 2017 While Twitter required those tweets be deleted the company cannot use them as grounds to take further action against the accounts the spokesperson saidThe Twitter spokesperson was not immediately able to provide CNN with the specific tweets the company had determined to have violated its rulesWe will continue to review any content that is flagged to us and take action as appropriate the spokesperson saidCatch up on all the latest Crime National International and Hatke news here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updatesThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Except for the change in the headline the story has been provided ASIS AS AVAILABLE without any verification or editing from our side Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever