Why Big Tech's Fight Against InfoWars Is Unwinnable
Why Big Tech's Fight Against InfoWars Is Unwinnable
Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer
August 8, 20185m 38s
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Show Notes
Early Monday morning, Apple pulled several podcasts associated with notorious conspiracy theorist and protein powder peddler Alex Jones from the iTunes store. The decision opened the floodgates to a wave of suspensions that continued throughout the day. First came Facebook, which said it unpublished four pages affiliated with Jones after receiving new reports over the weekend that videos on those pages violated Facebook's policies on hate speech.
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