Several major tech companies, including YouTube, Apple, Facebook, and Spotify, have suspended Alex Jones and his controversial website, Infowars, from their platforms this week. Unlike the other corporations, Twitter
has not followed suit. “He hasn’t violated our rules. We’ll enforce if he does,” Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey
announced via tweet. “We’re going to hold Jones to the same standard we hold to every account, not taking one-off actions to make us feel good in the short term, and adding fuel to new conspiracy theories.” Dorsey’s decision, celebrated by Jones’ followers, has elicited criticism from others in the tech industry, such as former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao. “Your platform does not operate in a vacuum,” she
tweeted. “If your site is the only one allowing this hate and harassment, it will get overrun and collapse.”