Facebook bans US extremist figures

Facebook Inc says it is banning American conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and other controversial US political personalities for violating the social media company’s policies on…

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Most of the individuals whose accounts are being removed are popular figures on the far right, including commentators Milo Yiannopoulos, Laura Loomer and Paul Joseph Watson.

Facebook also said it is banning Paul Nehlen, an avowed white supremacist who ran for Congress in 2018, and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who has preached black…