Twitter says Alex Jones hasn't violated policy, won't be banned from the site

Twitter keeps Alex Jones, Infowars while others drop him

Alex Jones can keep tweeting, for now. While most major social media sites removed Jones from their platforms Monday, his Twitter accounts remain live. Jones and his associated accounts aren't currently in violation of Twitter's rules, Twitter said in a statement to USA TODAY. Facebook, YouTube, Apple Podcasts and Spotify removed Jones' shows or pages from their platforms, citing breaches of policies against hate speech or graphic content – but not the conspiracy theories for which he's known.

Jones, a far-right pundit and provocateur, has been criticized for promoting widely debunked theories. Among other things, he said the Sandy Hook Elementary School murders were staged, and he said survivors of the Parkland, Florida high school shooting were actors.

He has a large following on social media, including 836,000 followers on Twitter. And he's been praised by President Donald Trump, who appeared on InfoWars during the 2016 presidential campaign. YouTube, Jones' most profitable social media channel, removed his content for violating community standards. The company sent this statement to USA TODAY: "When users violate these policies repeatedly, like our policies against hate speech and harassment or our terms prohibiting circumvention of our enforcement measures, we terminate their accounts." Jones hasn't violated any such rules at Twitter, and the site's "open and real-time nature is a powerful antidote to the spreading of all types of false or misleading information," the Twitter statement said.

Ellen K. Pao, a tech investor, diversity and inclusion activist and former CEO of Reddit, tweeted Sunday that Twitter should follow Apple's example in banning Jones. "Apple has always had more stringent content policies than other tech companies (trying to get the reddit app approved for the App Store meant major contortions and finger crossing), and it's worked so far for them," she wrote. Pao later mentioned Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey directly. Jones "still has a blue check on @Twitter. Your move, @jack. Be a leader with integrity like @tim_cook."

Jones is calling the purge of his online accounts a conspiracy to censor conservative content. "YouTube has officially terminated The Alex Jones Channel from their video platform as part of their political purge of the internet in preparation for the midterms and the 2020 presidential election," he tweeted.

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Anons, serious question, has a dig ever been done on the top Media Moguls? Asking because I prefer not to be redundant.

>>2490330

Okay, not what I was thinking of so, I think I will go with my idea. Thanks, I do remember those digs. I just wasn't sure if anyone ever looked further than that.

>>2490420

Just getting ready to post Gannett

Media Moguls Beginnings to Current Day Part (1)

Frank Ernest Gannett

Frank entered Cornell as part of the class of 1898 with $80 to his name. It was at Cornell that Gannett held five jobs and studied a variety of subjects. Since schools of journalism did not exist at the time, Gannett took courses in literature, history, civil and criminal law, government, Greek, and Latin. At the end of his freshman year, Gannett was elected as his class' correspondent for the school's newspaper, ‘’The Cornell Daily Sun’’. Gannett held this post for one year until he acquired a paying job as a campus reporter for ‘’The Ithaca Journal’’.[4] Soon after, he began selling reports to other newspapers as well. A quickly increasing demand led to Gannett hiring a group of students to help. Throughout his college career Frank would work for various magazines and newspapers. Gannett's time at Cornell was a successful one, leaving school with not only a B.A. degree, but $1,000 as well.

In 1906 Gannett became half owner of the daily newspaper the Elmira Gazette. Within the year, Gannett merged the Elmira Gazette and Elmira Star forming the Elmira Star-Gazette, which is still in circulation. Throughout his career, Gannett was known as "The Great Hyphenator." The media magnate was known to buy and merge money-losing dailies to create profit. Gannett would spend the rest of his life tirelessly working to build his corporation. He would expand his company to include both TV and radio stations. Though Frank never founded a paper, he "bought with an auditor's sure eye; in all, Publisher Gannett acquired 30 papers (plus a string of TV and radio stations) in 51 years, merged ten, and unloaded only three."[12] Gannett was able to acquire more papers than any other American publisher has without the help of an inheritance. Though he suffered from diabetes, the publisher refused to slow down. It would not be until 1948, when Gannett suffered from a stroke that he would slow down. Due to a fractured spine in 1955. Gannett was forced to transfer management duties and the presidency of Gannett Co. to Paul Miller.

The Gannett Corporation remains a major media empire and holding company to this day. The company has 92 daily newspapers in circulation today in the United States, including USA TODAY, the nation's No. 1 newspaper. Gannett Corporation newspapers reach 11.6 million readers every weekday and 12 million every Sunday. By 2012, the company also owned 23 TV stations that reached 21 million households, roughly 18 percent of the United States population.[15] On June 29, 2015, Gannett changed its name to Tegna after spinning off its publishing business into a new company called Gannett.[16]

https:// www.businesspundit.com/10-most-influential-media-moguls-in-history/

https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Gannett