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By February 2019, a total of 89 pages associated with InfoWars or Alex Jones had been removed from Facebook due to its recidivism policy, which is designed to prevent circumventing a ban. In May 2019, President Donald Trump tweeted or retweeted defenses of people associated with InfoWars , including editor Paul Joseph Watson and host Alex Jones ...
On Facebook, four pages associated with InfoWars and Alex Jones were removed over repeated policy violations. Apple removed all podcasts associated with Jones from iTunes . [101] Facebook cited instances of dehumanizing immigrants, Muslims and transgender people, as well as glorification of violence, as examples of hate speech .
In May 2019, Facebook and Instagram permanently banned Watson for violation of hate speech policies. Watson's career emerged through his work for conspiracy theorist and radio host Alex Jones. As editor-at-large of Jones' website InfoWars, he helped promote fake news and advocated for 9/11, chemtrail, and New World Order conspiracy theories.
Facebook has suspended despicable hate-mongerer Alex Jones' personal page for 30 days for "bullying" and "hate speech," but Facebook hasn't removed Jones' InfoWars page despite pleas...
Jones and Infowars had already been banned from Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Apple, YouTube, Spotify, Google Play, Vimeo, Pinterest, Mailchimp and LinkedIn.
Wolfgang Halbig, a past contributor to InfoWars, was arrested in January 2020 for unauthorized possession of personal information of Lenny Pozner. Halbig had illegally obtained Pozner's private information and attempted to dox Pozner by sending those to a long list of recipients.
InfoWars. Facebook was criticized for allowing InfoWars to publish falsehoods and conspiracy theories. Facebook defended its actions in regards to InfoWars, saying "we just don't think banning Pages for sharing conspiracy theories or false news is the right way to go."
On May 2, 2019, Facebook and the Facebook-owned platform Instagram announced a ban of "dangerous individuals and organizations" including Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, Alex Jones and his organization InfoWars, Paul Joseph Watson, Laura Loomer, and Paul Nehlen.
Leaked texts from Jones's phone indicated that he started National File to promote content from his InfoWars website while obscuring its origin to evade an InfoWars ban on Facebook, and to set up a business vehicle for his son Rex.
Pieczenik has appeared multiple times on InfoWars, the flagship radio program of Alex Jones, where he has made numerous statements, including that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a false flag operation.