Apple, Facebook, YouTube and Spotify ban conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for hate speech
Social media platforms say the incendiary content produced by Jones and his Inforwars site violated policies about glorifying violence and hate speech
“The Alex Jones Show” and other content produced by the far-right site Infowars has been removed from Apple, Facebook and Spotify.
Facebook said on Monday that four pages belonging to Jones were removed for violating the social network’s policy against hate speech. Also on Monday, the entirety of hundreds of episodes of “The Alex Jones Show” had been removed from music streaming service Spotify.
Those takedowns came just hours after Apple late Sunday removed all episodes of the show hosted by Jones and four other Infowars-related podcasts from Apple’s iTunes and Podcast apps.
And later on Monday, YouTube removed Jones and Infowars’ channels from the video sharing service, with some pages labelled with the declaration the account was terminated for violations of community guidelines.
The cumulative actions represent the largest efforts yet against Jones, a conspiracy theorist who most famously promoted the idea that the 2012 Sandy Hook junior school shooting in Connecticut never happened and was staged.