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Apple crushed Alex Jones — then tossed him a lifeline

Apple crushed Alex Jones — then tossed him a lifeline

6 years ago
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https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/8/17662546/apple-alex-jones-infowars-ban-app-podcast

Alex Jones’ fate was decided over the weekend, when Apple CEO Tim Cook and his vice president of software and services, Eddy Cue, met to talk about it. So says Dylan Byers in his daily newsletter, Pacific, which lays out the first reported account of how most of the major tech platforms came to ban the Infowars host on a single day. Byers continues:

Hours after Apple announced its move, Mark Zuckerberg and his team at Facebook made the decision to pull four of Jones’ pages from their platform. Zuckerberg only moved to remove these pages after learning about Apple’s decision, Facebook sources said. That is why the pages were removed at 3 a.m. Pacific Time.