The actor sent out a series of Tweets on Thursday aimed at a journalist who claimed his wife Hilaria was using her phone during James Gandolfini's funeral on Thursday at the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in Manhattan.
"Someone wrote that my wife was tweeting at a funeral. Hey. That's not true. But I'm gonna tweet at your funeral," Baldwin wrote on Twitter.
The "someone" was the Daily Mail's George Clark, whose article reads: "The pregnant yoga instructor's social media feed was full of upbeat posts while the Sopranos star's friends, family and co-stars were gripped with grief at a New York Catholic church."
Some of Baldwin's Tweets contained homophobic and threatening language: "I want all of my followers and beyond to straighten out this f––ing little b––, George Stark," he wrote in one.
Another said, "I'm gonna find you, George Stark, you toxic little queen, and I'm gonna f––...you...up."
The Tweets have since been deleted.
Baldwin's rep tells PEOPLE that Hilaria didn't have her phone with her at the funeral service but didn't comment on the nature of Alec's Tweets.
"It's disgraceful that a reporter would manufacture and publish a story and not call for comment or explanation – especially when it's intended to take away attention from honoring the memory of a beloved figure like James Gandolfini," his rep said in a statement.
Meanwhile, a source tells PEOPLE that some of Hilaria's Tweets came while she was outside the church. "She is seven months pregnant and left the service early to get water because it was very warm inside the church," the source says.
In 2011, Alec deactivated his Twitter account after Tweeting insults at American Airlines flight attendants who removed him from a flight for not putting away his phone.
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