Twitter väljer att inte radera Infowars-konton
Twitter går mot strömmen och låter högerextrema Infowars ha sina konton på plattformen kvar. Detta efter att såväl Apple som Facebook och Youtube valt att radera innehåll som skapats av Infowars och dess kontroversielle ledare Alex Jones.
Enligt Twitter så har Infowars ännu inte gjort något som strider mot Twitters villkor, uppger CNBC. En talesperson för Twitter hävdar samtidigt att man modererar allt innehåll på plattformen och att man kommer att vidta åtgärder om det behövs. Talespersonen påpekar dessutom att mycket innehåll aldrig ens når Twitter innan det plockas bort.
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. In August 2018, YouTube, Apple, and Facebook removed content from Jones and InfoWars because, they said, it violated their policies against hate speech and harassment.
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