Stone CHOKED when he was sued for lying about Guo Wengui making donations to Hillary’s campaign and other lies.
Stone CHOKED and apologized for spreading the #PizzaGate conspiracy lie about Hillary.
Roger Stone admitted to spreading lies on InfoWars and will apologize for his conduct on his social media platforms and in several national newspapers, according to the terms of settlement with Chinese billionaire, Guo Wengui.
“Roger Stone retracts and apologizes for statements he made regarding Guo Wengui,” Stone said in a statement that included a list of falsehood he admitted to spreading. “Recognizing my errors, I reached out to Mr. Guo and asked him to settle his defamation lawsuit against me. Mr. Guo graciously agreed to accept my regrets and apology.”
Among the false statements were claims that Guo had been found guilty of financial crimes in the United States and has violated U.S. election law by making donations Hillary Clinton and even a nascent presidential campaign for Steve Bannon — who Guo is known to be close to.
In May 2017, Jones apologized to yoghurt giant Chobani after saying one of their plants in Twins Falls, Idaho — which employs refugees — had been involved in child sexual assault and a tuberculosis spike. Just months earlier, he also apologized spreading the infamous Pizzagate conspiracy, which asserted that a child pedophile ring connected to Hillary Clinton was secretly operating in the basement of a Washington D.C. restaurant.
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NeoReach said an analysis of Mr. Jones’s followers on social media showed that most were white married men, with an average age of 28 and average annual income of $46,500. NeoReach said his Twitter account “has a notable audience concentration in New York.”
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A day after being banned from Twitter, Alex Jones and Infowars have been booted from yet another platform: Apple's popular App Store. As of Friday evening, searches on the App Store for Infowars return no results.
Apple confirmed the app's removal to BuzzFeed News, but declined to comment, pointing to its App Store Review Guidelines. The company said Infowars would not be permitted to return to the App Store.
Today, we permanently suspended @realalexjones and @infowars from Twitter and Periscope. We took this action based on new reports of Tweets and videos posted yesterday that violate our abusive behavior policy, in addition to the accounts’ past violations.
— Twitter Safety @TwitterSafety Sept 6, 2018
👏 👏 👏 🎆 Tumblr, BAN Alex Jones and Infowars. “Alex Jones, Infowars was already directing users to Tumblr“, USA Today
Today, we permanently suspended @realalexjones and @infowars from Twitter and Periscope. We took this action based on new reports of Tweets and videos posted yesterday that violate our abusive behavior policy, in addition to the accounts’ past violations. https://t.co/gckzUAV8GL
— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) September 6, 2018
Twitter suspended the personal account of the "Infowars" host for violating the social media company's rules against inciting violence after Jones tweeted a link to a video on Twitter's Periscope service calling for supporters to get their “battle rifles” ready against media and "antifa" activists. “Chicom operatives”
"They can take our Facebook, Apple, Spotify, Tunein, Youtube, Stitcher, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Flickr, Vimeo, Sprout, Mailchimp & Disqus but they'll never take our...........Tumblr!" Infowars tweeted Tuesday. The tweet includes a link to the Infowars Tumblr page.
Never forget Jones’ lies and calls for violence: #Pizzagate #SandyHook #QAnon
I'm stunned that Twitter has no problem with people who want to inflict additional misery on the parents of murdered children.
I'm joining Sean and others on August 17 by deactivating my Twitter account. The hashtag for this action is #DeactiDay. If Twitter doesn't fix its hate enabler problem in 30 days, I won't reactivate my account, after which it will be permanently deleted. It's very likely it will be deleted, because Twitter has demonstrated that it badly wants Alex Jones and his ilk on its platform. When CNN reported that Jones violated at least a dozen of Twitter's rules after Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said Jones hadn't and therefore couldn't be kicked off, Twitter didn't do a thing about it. Then Twitter admitted that Jones had indeed violated rules that had resulted in bans for other people, but said it wouldn't ban Jones.
Anyone who’s read her articles or watched her interviews with Silicon Valley’s who's who from AllThingsD to Recode knows what I mean. Checkout her recent interview with Zuckerberg which includes her calling Zuck on Infowars.
Unlike others of his ilk who cannot hide their social awkwardness, Mr. Dorsey takes his inherent shyness and tries hard to make it look like he is floating serenely above the fray.
Let me say that I have nothing but admiration for the long-suffering trust and safety team at Twitter, which has been tasked with the Sisyphean job of controlling humanity and scaling civility, armed only with some easily gamed and capriciously enforced rules.
And Mr. Jones is not even an edge case: His bilious lies, including that the murders of the Sandy Hook Elementary children were “synthetic, completely fake, with actors,” clearly sully the platform. Besides, let’s be clear: Twitter can change its rules to ban whoever it wants anytime, because it is not a public trust but a for-profit company.
Twitter has certainly appeared to have adjusted the rules for Donald Trump. While the president has not descended down the same demented rabbit hole as Alex Jones, many argue that he has violated various Twitter rules, by threatening violence (he did so against North Korea and later Iran) and by systematic harassment of people (the list is too long).
Mr. Trump still continues to play the medium like a virtuoso plays a Stradivarius violin. I mean this as no compliment, but he remains the most epic troll in Twitter’s pantheon. And, while it pains me to say this, he is a true tweet savant, however awful and deceitful his utterances sometimes are.
Jones uses Twitter as Trump does — spreading hate to incite more hate and even violence. #TwitterComplicit
Time for Twitter to hire or create AI content moderators. Ask Facebook
👏 👏 👏 About time. Twitter, if not now, when??? Jones is apart of Trump’s propaganda machine. #TrumpBase #PutinRepublicans
Freedom of Speech is does not include Hate Speech or unsubstantiated and debunked conspiracy theories: PizzaGate and that the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting never happened.
But these are factual truths:
Just a few of the best media moments of 2017. Let’s keep it going in the New Year, folks! Don’t let these liars and bigots get away with their bullshit!
Over the past three years, conspiracy site InfoWars has copied more than 1,000 articles produced by Russian state-sponsored broadcaster RT to its website — all without the permission of RT.
According to data from social sharing tracking website BuzzSumo, there were at least 1,014 RT articles republished on InfoWars since May of 2014. The articles appeared on InfoWars with a byline credit to RT, but a spokesperson for the Russian broadcaster told BuzzFeed News that InfoWars did not have permission to re-publish its content.
RT is not the only outlet InfoWars copied content from. A search on BuzzSumo shows there are articles copied from CNN, Sputnik, Breitbart, CNS News, the Blaze, CBC, BBC, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New York Post, LA Times, BuzzFeed, and others. RT’s articles, however, seem to be the most numerous.
the leading news source of Independent Voters, Trumpanzees and Bernie Bros.
Putin promoting his Manchurian Candidate, Trump #RussiaGate #SaveAmerica
Russian operatives hiding behind false identities used Facebook’s event management tool to remotely organize and promote political protests in the U.S., including an August 2016 anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim rally in Idaho, The Daily Beast has learned.
A Facebook spokesperson confirmed to the Daily Beast that the social-media giant “shut down several promoted events as part of the takedown we described last week.” The company declined to elaborate, except to confirm that the events were promoted with paid ads. (This is the first time the social media giant has publicly acknowledged the existence of such events.)
The Facebook events—one of which echoed Islamophobic conspiracy theories pushed by pro-Trump media outlets—are the first indication that the Kremlin’s attempts to shape America’s political discourse moved beyond fake news and led unwitting Americans into specific real-life action.
Far-right, pro-Trump firehoses Breitbart, InfoWars, and WorldNetDaily had pushed a series of stories implying immigrants were taking over Twin Falls since the beginning of 2016. The stories reached a fever pitch in the month before SecuredBorders’ event.
Clint Watts, a former FBI agent and expert on Russia’s influence campaign
“The objective of influence is to create behavior change. The simplest behavior is to have someone disseminate propaganda that Russia created and seeded. The second part of behavior influence is when you can get people to physically do something.”
