The four companies stated that Jones' disparaging comments about Muslims, immigrants, members of the LGBT community, and several other groups of people violate the hate speech clauses in their respective terms-of-service agreements.
But Jones' Infowars app remained available for download via Apple. A day after the move, people downloaded the remaining Infowars iPhone app enough times that it became the fourth most popular news app on the store, beating out the Google News and CNN apps, reports CNBC.
As CNBC notes, the Infowars app violates the same guidelines that prompted Apple to remove its podcast counterpart, so it seems unlikely that it will remain available from Apple for long. But for now, the push against him may have gotten more people interested in hearing what he has to say. Jones reacted to the news by tweeting a picture of himself holding a glass of champagne next to his app. You must have an active Microsoft account to download the application.
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Total Downloads Google is far from the first tech giant to block or ban Infowars content. In fact, Google-owned YouTube suspended The Alex Jones Channel in August , after mounting pressure from critics that platforms should enforce their anti-hate speech policies. Facebook took action against several Jones-operated pages that same day, as did Twitter with Infowars-related accounts the next month.
Facebook instituted a full ban of Alex Jones and Infowars content across all of its platforms in May Apple's iOS App Store, Google Play's main competitor, already banned the Infowars app more than a year ago during the late summer blitz. In the wake of all the mainstream bans, Jones and his supporters have repeatedly maintained that blocking Infowars and Jones' content only spreads it farther and makes it more popular.
But research indicates that so-called "deplatforming" actions do effectively reduce the spread of hate speech, misinformation, and conspiracy theories. The bigger question is why Google waited so long to take action against Infowars given that its peer organizations did so a year and a half ago. Tech services and social networks have long touted their role as defenders of free speech.
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