Apple raderar poddar efter hets mot folkgrupp
Samtliga avsnitt av flera podcaster från högerextrema Infowars har plockats bort från Apples plattformar. Det rapporterar Buzzfeed News. Anledningen är att det förekommit hets mot folkgrupp i sändningarna, något som som strider mot Apples villkor. Buzzfeed skriver att Apples beslut att plocka bort hela podcaster snarare än enstaka avsnitt är en av de skarpaste åtgärder som ett techföretag vidtagit hittills i kampen mot konspiratoriska nyheter.
Podcasterna har inte lagrats hos Apple, men däremot funnits indexerade på IT-jättens plattformar, vilket gjort det möjligt att prenumerera på dem via IOS-enheter.
InfoWars
Wikipedia (en)
InfoWars (stylized as INFOWARS) is a far right American conspiracy theorist and fake news website and media platform owned by Alex Jones's Free Speech Systems LLC. It was founded in 1999.
Talk shows and other content are created primarily in studios at an undisclosed location in an industrial area outside Austin, Texas. The InfoWars website receives approximately 10 million monthly visits, making it more visited than some mainstream news websites such as The Economist and Newsweek.The site has regularly published fake stories which have been linked to harassment of victims. In February 2018, Alex Jones, the publisher, director and owner of InfoWars, was accused of discrimination and sexually harassing employees. InfoWars, and in particular Jones, advocate numerous conspiracy theories particularly around purported domestic false flag operations by the U.S. Government (which they allege include the 9/11 attacks and Sandy Hook shootings). InfoWars has issued retractions various times as a result of legal challenges.
In July 2018, YouTube removed four of InfoWars' uploaded videos featuring hate speech and suspended posts for 90 days. Facebook also banned Jones after it determined four videos on his pages violated its community standards in July 2018.
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