Roku is deleting the Infowars channel from its platform, a couple days after adding it as a supported channel. In a tweet, Roku said after the channel became available, “we heard from concerned parties and have determined that the channel should be removed from our platform. Deletion from the channel store and platform has begun and […]
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Roku 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’ trailerSarah Huckabee Sanders shares doctored InfoWars video of Jim Acosta incident
The White House is spreading fake news.
On Wednesday, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted out an apparently doctored video of a testy interchange between President Trump and CNN reporter Jim Acosta during a post-election press conference. …
White House shares manipulated Infowars video to justify CNN press ban
Read this slowly: The White House’s press secretary has tweeted a manipulated video shared by the editor-at-large of conspiracy theorist outlet Infowars to attempt to justify its decision to suspend the press credentials of CNN’s chief white house correspondent. CNN’s Jim Acosta had his press pass pulled by the White House earlier today after press secretary […]
View More White House shares manipulated Infowars video to justify CNN press banStudy 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 metricsFacebook’s election interference problem exponentially worse on eve of midterms, study suggests
An analysis of political advertisers running extensive campaigns on Facebook targeting users in the United States over the past six months has flagged a raft of fresh concerns about its efforts to tackle election interference — suggesting the social network’s self regulation is offering little more than a sham veneer of accountability. Dig down and […]
View More Facebook’s election interference problem exponentially worse on eve of midterms, study suggestsTwitter 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 fiddlersAlex 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 StoreApple finally bans Alex Jones’ InfoWars app from the App Store
Alex Jones took another major blow this week.
Following bans from Twitter and Periscope, Apple has permanently banned Jones’ InfoWars app from its App Store.
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