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Thisman

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Oct 25, 2017
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Apple has removed the entire library for five of Infowars' six podcasts from its iTunes and Podcast apps, BuzzFeed News has learned. Among the deleted podcasts are the show "War Room" as well as the popular Alex Jones Show podcast, which is hosted daily by the prominent conspiracy theorist.

Apple's decision to remove all episodes of Jones' popular show — rather than just specific offending episodes — is one of the largest enforcement actions intended to curb conspiratorial news content by a technology company to date. Though Apple is far from Jones and Infowars' only distribution platform, the decision to pull Jones' content will considerably limit the outlet's audio reach — as of 2018, Apple's Podcasts platform amassed 50 billion all-time downloads and streams.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/articl...emoving-alex-jones-and-infowars-podcasts-from

Mod Edit: Adding additional info to OP per request.



• Apple has removed the entire library for five InfoWars podcasts from iTunes • Facebook has removed four Alex Jones and Infowars pages • Spotify has removed all episodes of The Alex Jones Show podcast
 
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sleepnaught

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Oct 26, 2017
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Not going to say good job to something that should've never been on there to begin with. But, its the right call.
 

Slayven

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Oct 25, 2017
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Does Itunes host the files are just a rss feed?
 

deepFlaw

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Oct 25, 2017
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Good.

Been interesting seeing discussion of this on Twitter the past few days regarding Spotify and some podcast apps being asked by folks to remove him. Seems like some apps had the ability to remove his show from their own listings, while others depended purely on Apple's moderation and didn't have a system in place for it.
 

ctj

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Oct 27, 2017
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Nice. Hopefully it doesn't end up getting put back up and other services follow suit. The InfoWars app needs to be removed from the App Store and Play Store as well.
 

stump sock

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Oct 29, 2017
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It is a good job, I truly believe he is one person that truly needs to be de-platformed. As for saying good job I am not going to go down the how was he on there, as a big podcast listener it's amazing what you can find on the Apple podcast app, it's not that crazy to get all kinds of crazy on there. However not all crazy is inciteful or dangerous, but since Alex Jobes and Infowars obviously causes real world problems it needs to lose accesss and Apple has done that.

This is good news let's not ruin it.