Apple, Facebook and Spotify delete content of US conspiracy theorist Alex Joness
Read more about Apple, Facebook and Spotify delete content of US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Business-standard. Apple today deleted most of the podcasts of the far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, while Facebook removed four of his online pages which the social media platform accused of "glorifying violence." Jones, whose site InfoWars has accused victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting of being "actors" in a plot to discredit the gun lobby, had violated Facebook's hate speech policies, the social network said. Facebook said the pages were taken down for "glorifying violence, which violates our graphic violence policy, and using dehumanizing language to describe people who are transgender, Muslims and immigrants, which violates our hate speech policies." Gunman Adam Lanza killed 26 people, including 20 children, when he launched his rampage in the Connecticut school. Jones has repeatedly claimed the massacre was a hoax and that the parents of the murdered first-graders were actors, an accusa
6 Aug 2018 ... Read more about Apple, Facebook and Spotify delete content of US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Business-standard. Apple today deleted ...