Category: infowars

Google pulls Infowars from the Play Store over coronavirus misinformation

[ad_1] In 2018, several internet services decided to pull channels from Alex Jones and his Infowars setup, including YouTube and Apple’s App Store, but until now the company’s app remained available via the Google Play Store. While conspiracy theories and lawsuits from parents who said he’d lied about them and their children weren’t enough to […]

Trump’s ‘Social Media Summit’ was a celebration of conspiracy theorists

[ad_1] “A big subject today at the White House Social Media Summit will be the tremendous dishonesty, bias, discrimination and suppression practiced by certain companies,” Trump tweeted. “We will not let them get away with it much longer.” While Trump didn’t mention Facebook and Twitter by name, it’s not hard to figure out who he […]

InfoWars can’t use Pepe the Frog after lawsuit settlement

[ad_1] In order to settle the suit, InfoWars has agreed to pay $15,000, $14,000 of which is profit from sales of the poster, plus an additional $1,000. Furie’s lawyers have said that the additional thousand will be donated to a conservation charity for frogs. InfoWars, too, is claiming this as a victory, with the supplements […]

Facebook and Instagram ban Alex Jones and other far-right extremists

[ad_1] The move will also ban impersonations, not to mention Facebook events and groups promoting those subject to the bans. You can still talk about the banned individuals or share content involving them that doesn’t violate other terms of service. Facebook argued in a statement to The Atlantic that this was in line with its […]