InfoWars's Alex Jones has been blocked by Facebook for 30 days after the right-wing conspiracy theorist was accused of spreading hate speech and encouraging physical harm.

The freeze comes just two days after the social media giant defended its decision to allow Jones a platform to spread conspiracy theories including that the Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax and 9-11 an 'inside job' by the government.

The ban only affects Jones personally, and simply stops him being able to post from his own account. It does not affect his fellow InfoWars admins, who will still be able to post on The Alex Jones Channel and the main InfoWars page, which both remain live.

The decision to freeze Jones's account came after Facebook removed four videos he posted for violating its rules. These videos were also removed from YouTube, which gave Jones a 90-day ban on broadcasting live on the platform.

The Alex Jones Show page and the main InfoWars account will be taken down if they post content violating Facebook's standards in the near future, Dailymail.com understands. 

 'Our Community Standards make it clear that we prohibit content that encourages physical harm [bullying], or attacks someone based on their religious affiliation or gender identity [hate speech],' Facebook said.

'We remove content that violates our standards as soon as we're aware of it. In this case, we received reports related to four different videos on the Pages that InfoWars and Alex Jones maintain on Facebook,' the spokesman added. 

Jones hit back in a Facebook post claiming he had been 'chosen as the sacrificial lamb on the alter of political correctness to signify an end to the freedom of speech.'

The shock jock claimed the move was an example of 'massive censorship' and an 'infrastructural attack' on his network.