Alex Jones' Personal Page Suspended From Facebook for 30 Days

Caption: On left, Maria Houser Conzemius; on right, Jim Conzemius, my husband, on the High Trestle Trail Bridge in 2017.

Facebook has suspended despicable hate-mongerer Alex Jones' personal page for 30 days for "bullying" and "hate speech," but Facebook hasn't removed Jones' InfoWars page despite pleas from Sandy Hook parents who have received death threats from Jones' followers. One follower has actually served jail time for threatening to kill Noah Pozner's father, Leonard Pozner. Jones has stated that the children, teachers, and administrators shot to death at Sandy Hook Elementary School were actors faking their very real, provable deaths. Jones claims that the Sandy Hook murders by a deranged teenager were a hoax.

Is the National Rifle Association (NRA) funding his campaign of lying about the tragic event, which occurred shortly before Christmas break in 2012? What would be Jones' motive in perpetrating such an outrageous lie? Noah Pozner, one of the 20 dead six-year-olds shot by Adam Lanza, whose mother bought multiple assault weapons and stored them in Adam's bedroom, is buried far from his parents because it's too dangerous for them to live where they used to live. Noah's parents have moved multiple times. They and other parents of the Sandy Hook victims are suing Alex Jones for defamation.

So is Marcel Fontaine, a man who Alex Jones falsely accused of shooting 17 teachers and students at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Marcel Fontaine has never even visited Florida. Nikolas Cruz has been arrested for the slaughter, which he allegedly accomplished with an AR-15 while a school security guard cowered outside the school listening to shots fired without intervening. An unarmed coach sacrificed his own life to save a student, who he pushed away from the line of fire.

Facebook still abounds with Russian trolls stirring up the left and the right. I've read that stirring up both sides is somehow efficacious to Russia's cause of disruption. So when I saw a Facebook photo of black men and women bound together, presumably as slaves, the intent was obviously to enrage and inflame the left. Why? I don't know what the Russians are doing to inflame and enrage the right, but I'm more suspicious than I was in 2016 and more aware than I was then that the Russians are trying to disrupt the 2018 midterms. Their strategy, other than to further divide us, eludes me.

I clicked the three dots to the right of the image and asked Facebook to turn off notifications from this suspicious individual and I kept seeing more of this type of image anyway. My choices changed from "turn off notifications" to "turn on notifications."

Facebook needs to clean up its act. I've reported hate speech based on gender and race. Facebook does nothing. I noted a hint of retaliation when I persisted in reporting hate speech and stopped. Twitter needs to ban Alex Jones' InfoWars. Facebook and Twitter shouldn't be serving up lies that are clearly lies. My hope, since Facebook's and Twitter's administrators seem to lack a moral compass, is that one of the worst and most prominent purveyors of lies (except, of course, for Trump himself) will lose his lawsuits and pay through the nose. The high costs of waging war on the truth should discourage Alex Jones and his InfoWars.