![]() On August 8th, Salon published an article titled "Meet Jared Holt, the guy who’s getting Alex Jones kicked off the internet," which claimed that Right Wing Watch writer Jared Holt "helped lead the pressure campaign" to remove Infowars content from various social media platforms. Also on August 6th, Ben Shapiro released a video expressing concerns about tech companies censoring conservative users (shown below, right). That same day, The Young Turks released a video about the banning, in which host Ana Kasparian revealed that she "agreed with their reasons" for terminating Jones' accounts (shown below, left). Meanwhile, YouTuber Sargon of Akkad uploaded a video titled "First They Came For Alex Jones," which framed the banning of Jones as an attack on free speech (shown below, right). On August 6th, Philip DeFranco uploaded a video discussing the controversy, which gained upwards of 1.2 million views and 26,800 comments within 48 hours (shown below, left). The Left Is Dancing On The Grave Of Infowars /g9d3Y1xVON- Alex Jones August 6, 2018 That day, Jones reacted to the bannings during an InfoWars livestream (shown below). Shortly after, BuzzFeed reporter Charlie Warzel tweeted a statement from YouTube regarding the channel's removal (shown below). In a press release, Facebook revealed the pages had been removed for violating the site's "hate speech and bullying policies." Also on August 6th, YouTube removed the Infowars channel from the site. The following day, Facebook removed the "Alex Jones Channel," "Infowars Nightly News," "Alex Jones" and "Infowars" pages from the platform. On August 5th, Apple removed all episodes from five Infowars podcasts from the iTunes directory, including War Room and Alex Jones Show. On July 30th, 2018, the activist group Sleeping Giants tweeted a call for Apple to cease hosting Infowars content on iTunes (shown below). ![]() Social Media PresenceĪs of April 2017, Jones has over 1.5 million Facebook likes and 607,000 followers on Twitter. Within three years, the video received upwards of 8.1 million views and 15,500 comments. On May 9th, 2013, the YouTube channel uploaded footage of a 12-year-old boy confronting a police officer for parking illegally on a sidewalk (shown below). The video was removed after the channel was suspended by YouTube in July 2018. In the next six years, the video gained over 3.9 million views and 60,300 comments. On September 10th, 2009, the channel posted a video message from Charlie Sheen directed toward United States President Barack Obama regarding questions about the official account of the September 11th, 2001 attacks. On February 11th, 2008, the Alex Jones YouTube channel was launched, which gathered upwards of 557 million views and 1.1 million subscribers in the next eight years. In the 2001 drama film Waking Life, Jones appears as a rotoscoped animation ranting about the corporate control of government while driving a car with a public address system attached to the hood (shown below). In 1996, Jones launched the libertarian political news site, which often features articles about conspiracy theories and government corruption. In the 1990s, Jones hosted the talk show The Final Edition on the radio station KJFK in Austin, Texas. Online, Jones has earned a reputation as a vocal libertarian and right-wing conspiracy theorist after accusing the United States government of secret involvement in historical events and human-made disasters. ![]() Conspiracy, libertarian, politics, anarchism, conservative, paleoconservative, infowars, jared nuzzolillo, todd dracula, benbam, mediamatters4america, chris kogos, info warsĮncyclopedia Dramatica Twitter Wikipedia AboutĪlex Jones is an American talk show host of the syndicated radio program The Alex Jones Show and founder of libertarian news website Infowars.
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