Apple, Facebook, YouTube and Spotify Remove Alex Jones and Infowars Content
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Four platforms remove Infowars content in one day, citing their content policies.
Within a single day, Apple, Facebook, YouTube and Spotify took action against Alex Jones and Infowars content, each under its own policies. Apple removed five of the six Infowars podcasts from its podcast directory, stating that it “does not tolerate hate speech.” Facebook unpublished four Pages, including the InfoWars Page, for repeated violations of its Community Standards, citing its graphic violence and hate speech policies, and placed Jones, as a Page administrator, in a 30-day block. YouTube terminated the Alex Jones Channel, which had about 2.4 million subscribers, for violating its Community Guidelines. Spotify, which had removed selected episodes the previous week, removed all episodes of The Alex Jones Show.
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Facebook. Enforcing Our Community Standards. (2018). Facebook's own announcement, dated 6 August 2018. Source for the four Pages unpublished (the Alex Jones Channel Page, the Alex Jones Page, the InfoWars Page and the Infowars Nightly News Page) 'for repeated violations of Community Standards and accumulating too many strikes'; the policies cited (glorifying violence under the graphic violence policy, and dehumanizing language about transgender people, Muslims and immigrants under the hate speech policy); and the 30-day block placed on Jones as a Page admin.
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Heater, B. (2018). YouTube removes Alex Jones, too. TechCrunch. Published 6 August 2018. Source for YouTube terminating the Alex Jones Channel for violating its Community Guidelines, its statement that it terminates accounts that repeatedly violate policies 'against hate speech and harassment', and the channel's 2.4 million subscribers. Also reports Spotify's earlier removal of selected Jones podcast episodes, on 2 August 2018, for violating company terms.
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Perrigo, B. (2018). Alex Jones' InfoWars Podcasts Removed From Apple and Spotify. Time. Published 6 August 2018. Source for Apple removing five of six Infowars podcasts, including The Alex Jones Show and War Room, leaving Real News With David Knight; Apple's statement that it 'does not tolerate hate speech'; and Spotify removing all episodes of The Alex Jones Show while four other Infowars podcasts remained.
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