Apple now completely bans Infowars app from controversial Alex Jones

Apple has removed the Infowars app from controversial conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. According to the tech giant, Jones violated the App Store’s content guidelines in his podcast. Earlier, on Thursday, Jones’ Twitter account was also permanently suspended.

According to Reuters, Jones’ podcast violated the ban on “defamatory, discriminatory or otherwise malicious content, especially if it humiliates, intimidates or endangers a specific group.” Previously, individual episodes of Infowars were removed from iTunes, but Apple is taking this one big step further.

One of the views Jones supports is that the 2012 shooting in the American town of Sandy Hook, which killed 20 elementary school students, was invented by left-wing groups who want to see firearms ownership banned in the US. Jones representatives could not be immediately reached by Reuters for comment on Friday night.

The Twitter permaban Jones got on Thursday has the same motivation. Twitter says Jones’ accounts and his podcast have been suspended for “violations of the rules against offensive content, now and in the past.” Responding to that sanction, Jones said, “We are being targeted not because we lie, but because we speak the truth and because we are popular.”

At the beginning of August, Facebook, YouTube and Spotify also took steps to remove Alex Jones from their platforms.