Author: Alex Lockie / Source: Business Insider
- Alex Jones, the king of conspiracy theories, saw his YouTube channels, Apple podcasts, Facebook pages, and Spotify content scrubbed off the internet over the past few days .
- As recently as July, Facebook had defended Jones’ right to publish and long resisted taking his pages down, saying it was a “fundamental” value for it to protect Jones’ platform.
- Facebook now says it removed him for glorifying violence and hate speech.
- Jones has long glorified violence and spouted hate speech, and this example proves that Facebook is a spineless corporation.
When Facebook removed the official page of Alex Jones, the Infowars host and king of conspiracy theories, it violated a value the social-media company called “fundamental” less than one month ago — and it perfectly illustrates how the tech titan has no backbone or moral leadership.
“We believe banning these Pages would be contrary to the basic principles of free speech,” Facebook said when asked by
“I think part of the fundamental thing here is that we created Facebook to be a place where different people can have a voice,” John Hegeman, the head of Facebook’s News Feed, told Darcy at the time. “And different publishers have very different points of view.
”In removing Jones on Monday, Facebook apparently betrayed…
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