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Alex Jones. (Drew Angerer / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA)

Konspirationsteoretiker stängs av från Twitter

Som sista stora sociala medier-plattform har Twitter beslutat att stänga av konspirationsteoretikern Alex Jones och hans plattform Infowars, rapporterar amerikanska medier.

Jones och Infowars är ökända för att sprida falsk information. Bland annat har man hävdat att skolmassakern i Sandy Hook aldrig ägde rum.

Twitter förklarar beslutet med att Jones ägnat sig åt trakasserier på deras plattform.

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Alex Jones
Wikipedia (en)
Alexander Emric (or Emerick) Jones (born February 11, 1974) is an American radio show host and conspiracy theorist. He hosts The Alex Jones Show from Austin, Texas, which airs on the Genesis Communications Network across the United States and online. Jones runs a website, Infowars.com, devoted to conspiracy theories and fake news, and the websites NewsWars and PrisonPlanet. Jones has been the center of many controversies, including his promotion of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting conspiracy theories, and his aggressive opposition to gun control in a debate with Piers Morgan. He has accused the U.S. government of planning the Oklahoma City bombing and the September 11 attacks and of staging moon landings. He has claimed that several governments and big business have colluded to create a "New World Order" through "manufactured economic crises, sophisticated surveillance tech and—above all—inside-job terror attacks that fuel exploitable hysteria".Jones has described himself as a conservative, paleoconservative and libertarian, terms he uses interchangeably. Others describe him as conservative, right-wing, alt-right, and far-right. New York described Jones as "America's leading conspiracy theorist", and the Southern Poverty Law Center describes him as "the most prolific conspiracy theorist in contemporary America". Asked about such labels, Jones said he is "proud to be listed as a thought criminal against Big Brother".
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