A revealing cluster of emails leaked to Business Insider offers a glimpse at how Facebook decides what content is objectionable in high profile cases. In this instance, a group of executives at Facebook went hands on in determining if an Alex Jones Instagram post violated the platform’s terms of service or not. As Business Insider […]
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YouTube under pressure to ban UK Far Right activist after livestreamed intimidation
The continued presence of a UK Far Right activist on YouTube’s platform has been raised by the deputy leader of the official opposition during ministerial questions in the House of Commons today. Labour’s Tom Watson put questions to the secretary of state for digital, Jeremy Wright, regarding Stephen Yaxley-Lennon’s use of social media for targeted […]
View More YouTube under pressure to ban UK Far Right activist after livestreamed intimidationUK Far Right activist circumvents Facebook ban to livestream threats
Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, a Far Right UK activist who was permanently banned from Facebook last week for repeatedly breaching its community standards on hate speech, was nonetheless able to use its platform to livestream harassment of an anti-fascist blogger whom he doorstepped at home last night. UK-based blogger Mike Stuchbery detailed the intimidating incident in a […]
View More UK Far Right activist circumvents Facebook ban to livestream threatsRoku explains why it allowed Infowars on its platform
Roku has just made a bad decision with regard to its growing advertising business by associating its brand with the toxic conspiracy theorist, Alex Jones. As Digiday first reported this morning, Roku has chosen to add the Infowars live show hosted by Jones to the Roku platform as a supported channel, much to the disgust […]
View More Roku explains why it allowed Infowars on its platform2018 was the year we (sort of) cleaned up the internet
This was the year we began to answer the age old question: if a bigot rants in a forest, and nobody is around to hear him, does anybody care what that idiot says?
Over the past year, internet companies wielded the hammer known as “deplatforming” more…
Evil genius dubs Alex Jones’ voice into ‘Detective Pikachu’ trailer
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You probably thought you lived in a world where InfoWars would never cross over with Pokemon. Think again.
On Tuesday YouTuber Dolan Dark posted a clip from the recent trailer with some classic Alex Jones sound bites dropped in for Pikachu’s voice — in place of handsome Canadian Ryan Reynolds (via Gizmodo).
It is somehow simultaneously amazing and horrifying.
Yeah, it’s gonna be tough to unsee that. Maybe you’d better cleanse your palette with that A Star Is Born meme. Read more…
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View More Evil genius dubs Alex Jones’ voice into ‘Detective Pikachu’ trailerStudy of political junk on Facebook raises fresh questions about its metrics
A midterms election study of political disinformation being fenced by Facebook’s platform supports the company’s assertion that a clutch of mostly right-leaning and politically fringe Pages it removed in October for sharing “inauthentic activity” were pulled for gaming its engagement metrics. Though it remains unclear why it took Facebook so long to act against such prolific […]
View More Study of political junk on Facebook raises fresh questions about its metricsTwitter says it has removed several accounts affiliated with Infowars and Alex Jones
Twitter has cleared more Infowars related accounts off its platform. The company told CNN today that it permanently suspended 18 accounts affiliated with the far-right website, known for spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories, on Monday after “numerous violations and warnings.” It added the removals were in addition to five Infowars affiliated accounts that had been […]
View More Twitter says it has removed several accounts affiliated with Infowars and Alex JonesTwitter widens its view of bad actors to fight election fiddlers
Twitter has announced more changes to its rules to try to make it harder for people to use its platform to spread politically charged disinformation and thereby erode democratic processes. In an update on its “elections integrity work” yesterday, the company flagged several new changes to the Twitter Rules which it said are intended to provide “clearer […]
View More Twitter widens its view of bad actors to fight election fiddlersTwitter to prohibit ‘dehumanizing language’ in new rules
Call it the Alex Jones effect.
Twitter announced on Tuesday that it will update its rules to prohibit “dehumanizing language” on the platform. While it is still finalizing what this policy will look like through user feedback and internal review proc…
PayPal makes it harder to buy shady supplements from Infowars
PayPal confirmed Friday that it was dropping support for all Infowars websites, where conspiracy theorist Alex Jones makes serious cash selling shady health supplements.
“Our values are the foundation for the decision,” a PayPal spokesperson told Mas…
Alex Jones’ Infowars gets banned from Apple’s App Store
Another domino has fallen in Alex Jones’ media empire. Apple this week announced that it’s pulled the controversial conspiracy theorist/provocateur from the App Store this week, banning the Infowars app over violations to its “objectionable content” rules. Slightly more specifically, the host was determined to have violated the TOS around “defamatory, discriminatory, or mean-spirited content, […]
View More Alex Jones’ Infowars gets banned from Apple’s App Store