Apple, Facebook, YouTube, Spotify ban Infowars: A conspiracy theorist's dream?

Apple, Facebook, YouTube, Spotify ban Infowars: A conspiracy theorist's dream?

6 years ago
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https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-facebook-youtube-spotify-bans-infowars-a-conspiracy-theorists-dream/

In a move presaged by weeks of mounting pressure, four major technology platforms -- Apple, Facebook, Google's YouTube and Spotify -- all cracked down on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his Infowars media empire with widespread content removal or total account termination, all seeming to culminate within about 24 hours. 

Was it a long-overdue crackdown or a censorship conspiracy? Depends who you ask. The truth -- wait, does that still exist? -- is probably neither. But in a hyper divisive era, the opaque way that tech companies employ their community standards leaves them open to being villainized by both sides, even those straining at opposite ends of a political tug-of-war.