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July 9, 2019
Facebook’s policy for posting content that called for violence used to be straightforward: don’t do it. Now, there are exceptions.
According to an updated version of Facebook’s Community Standards, calls for “high-…
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January 28, 2019
Left-wing academia attacks conservatives and conservative news for “fake news.” But their studies fall short of proving this theory.
A new study found that “fake news was most concentrated among conservative voters.” Yet it…
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October 23, 2018
Anti-semitism gets a free pass on Twitter, but conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and company do not.
On October 22, Twitter suspended 18 accounts that were affiliated with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and Infowars, in a follow up move to the…
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September 7, 2018
In an unsurprising reversal, Twitter decided to ban conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and InfoWars from its platform as of Sept. 6.
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Citing instances that “violate our abusive behavior policy,” Twitter Safety announced that “Today, we…
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August 7, 2018
In the running war against freedom of speech, tech companies have started to take down extremist content.
Infowars and Alex Jones were banned from at least Facebook, Apple Podcasts, YouTube and Spotify. They were not banned for conspiracy theories…
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July 30, 2018
InfoWars founder Alex Jones is currently in the midst of a 30-day Facebook suspension for allegedly violating the site’s rules against “bullying” and “hate speech.” It has even resulted in surprising support from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). Jones has…
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July 13, 2018
CNN attempted to test the limits of Facebook’s new campaign against fake news by questioning the presence of InfoWars on its site.
In a piece on the CNN website, senior media reporter Oliver Darcy said he asked multiple members of Facebook’s team…