Alex Jones not allowed into today's Senate hearing for Facebook and Twitter

Also happening in D.C. today, executives from Facebook and Twitter will testify in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee:

Sandberg and Dorsey arrive for their Senate Intel hearing. I’ll be covering it today. pic.twitter.com/MBGNvuAUV9

— Alexander Marquardt (@MarquardtA) September 5, 2018

And Alex Jones, who was booted from Facebook and YouTube, will most certainly come up:

So I'm guessing there will be some Qs about Alex Jones et al. https://t.co/lMviEzETim

— Alexander Marquardt (@MarquardtA) September 4, 2018

Jones himself showed up at the hearing…

Alex Jones just showed up to the Senate tech company hearing pic.twitter.com/q75sdQ4SEd

— Alexander Marquardt (@MarquardtA) September 5, 2018

…but was denied admittance to the chamber:

And Alex Jones was told he couldn’t go into the chamber. pic.twitter.com/nsRq60qtTB

— Alexander Marquardt (@MarquardtA) September 5, 2018

And now the InfoWars host is gargling with reporters, saying there’s “an attempted purge of the first amendment” in America:

https://twitter.com/AliABCNews/status/1037335525957488641

And calling for a breakup of the “tech giants”:

Alex Jones is outside the Senate Intelligence hearing on social media calling for the breakup of tech giants pic.twitter.com/IuIZEzyR3b

— John Hendel (@JohnHendel) September 5, 2018

According to Jones, President Donald Trump will issue executive orders on social media companies within the next two weeks:

https://twitter.com/EvanMcS/status/1037337225351098373

More from Jones:

Alex Jones of Infowars now en fuego talking to reporters outside the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing. "This is dangerous authoritarianism"

— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) September 5, 2018

NEW — moments ago on Capitol Hill, Alex Jones responds to my question about reports that Jack Dorsey personally overruled his staff to keep Jones/InfoWars on Twitter: pic.twitter.com/a56n7M9N1K

— J.D. Durkin (@jiveDurkey) September 5, 2018

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