In a recent article, TechCrunch reports that Facebook’s removal of Infowars host Alex Jones from its platform underscores the many issues the company has with content moderation.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey claimed during an appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience that he didn’t know what exactly led to Infowars’ Alex Jones permanent blacklisting from the platform.
Longtime political operative Roger Stone is speaking out for the first time since his Friday arrest in connection to the special counsel’s Russia probe, calling its chief investigation Robert Mueller a “rogue prosecutor,” who is helping to turn the United States into the “new Soviet Union.”
Streaming device manufacturer and platform Roku caved in to demands from left-wing activists to blacklist Infowars, Tuesday.
Apple CEO Tim Cook advocated for censorship of “those who push hate [and] division” across his company’s digital platforms.
Left-wing alternative media outlet Reverb Press was blacklisted from Facebook and Twitter last week, just months after celebrating Infowars’ mass purge from the same platforms. Reverb Press now complains, “It’s absurd that Facebook thinks it can define what is ‘legitimate’ news.”
Twitter has refused to uphold its harassment rules against an Antifa account which encouraged harassment of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), after permanently blacklisting Infowars host Alex Jones last month based on the same rules.
Internet payment services giant PayPal has blacklisted Infowars from its platform for allegedly promoting “hate and discriminatory intolerance against certain communities and religions.”
BuzzFeed senior technology writer Charlie Warzel acknowledged that he sent emails to Twitter enquiring about tweets from Infowars founder Alex Jones ahead of the social media company’s decision to ban Jones from its platform.
The masters of the universe continue to prove that there really is a conspiracy against Alex Jones.
Alex Jones was banned from Twitter for insulting CNN journalist Oliver Darcy.
Twitter on Thursday permanently banned accounts belonging to Alex Jones and Infowars over a video of the radio host confronting a CNN reporter for lobbying to blacklist him from the social media platform, which CEO Jack Dorsey described as a “digital
They’re not the “enemy” when they present facts. But like Ibsen’s hero, they become the opposition when they presume “facts” entitle them to rule.
A recent survey from big tech workplace discussion app Blind shows that 61 percent of employees at major tech firms agree that Twitter should join the rest of Silicon Valley in blacklisting Infowars host Alex Jones. The notable exception is Twitter employees themselves.
In an appearance on Fox News’s Tucker Carlson Tonight, Mark Penn warned censorship by Big Tech could significantly influence elections.
Twitter this week suspended InfoWars host Alex Jones for seven days for what it said were violations of its policies, following Facebook, YouTube, Apple, and Spotify’s simultaneous banning last week.
Liberal comedian Bill Maher defended InfoWars host Alex Jones on Friday’s episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, arguing that self-described liberals should be in favor of free speech as it is a core American value.
Robert Spencer, founder and director of Jihad Watch and author of “The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS,” warned of expanding online left-wing political censorship via large technology companies. He offered his remarks in a Friday interview with Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Today.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey performed an interview with NBC News recently where he discussed the issues his platform faces surrounding “election security” and the presence of Infowars host Alex Jones on the website.
Twitter has suspended Infowars host Alex Jones for seven days following a live broadcast in which Jones told his followers to prepare their “battle rifles” to defend themselves. The stream ironically was discussing social media censorship.
The video streaming service Vimeo has become the latest company to remove content created Alex Jones’s InfoWars, following an intense blacklist campaign led by CNN and other progressive media.
Conservative commentator Gavin Mcinnes appeared on Breitbart News Saturday this week to discuss his recent Twitter suspension and why it’s up to President Trump to stop social media censorship.
When an ordinary account gets banned on Facebook, it’s possible that no human was ever involved in the decision. Not so for Alex Jones and Infowars. According to the New York Times, the order to ban the radio host came from the very top.
CNN and its far-left media reporter Oliver Darcy are on a blacklisting rampage against Infowars.
CNN is continuing its effort to pressure Twitter into banning InfoWars, following the mass purge pushed by the news outlet this week.
An article was published in the Weekly Standard this week titled “The Case for Banning Alex Jones” aims to defend the Masters of the Universe almost unanimously blacklisting Alex Jones and Infowars from social media.
The Weekly Standard is calling for social media outlets to expand their blacklist of organizations like Infowars.
And so it begins: YouTube is now adding “fact checks” to videos which question the man-made global warming scare narrative.
Far left website Salon credited Jared Holt of Right Wing Watch, along with Matt Rivitz’s anti-conservative harassment campaign Sleeping Giants, for catalyzing the purge of Alex Jones and Infowars from major tech platforms earlier this week. Holt’s involvement appears to be motivated by jealousy — he stated, “I guess I was a little bit offended that Alex Jones was able to get on the air and I wasn’t.”
Apple has issued a statement defending its decision to allow the Infowars app to remain in its App store, despite banning the same content from its podcast directory.
