Spotify becomes the latest tech platform to reject Alex Jones

Spotify becomes the latest tech platform to reject Alex Jones

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https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/02/spotify-becomes-the-latest-tech-platform-to-reject-alex-jones/

Yesterday, Spotify became the third tech platform in just over a week to take a stance on Alex Jones’s controversial far-right and conspiracy theorist content. The streaming service removed several Infowars podcast episodes due to their violation of the policy against hate content that Spotify released in May. This action follows strikes given against Jones by both YouTube and Facebook for videos containing content that violated those company’s policies, including Islamophobic and transphobic hate speech and child endangerment.

In a statement to Bloomberg on Wednesday, a spokeswoman for Spotify said the following:

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