As Twitchy reported, once the major tech platforms like Facebook and YouTube fell in line and started banning Alex Jones and Infowars, CNN’s Oliver Darcy tweeted that the media should be getting more credit for getting Jones’ banned — after all, it was their reporting that put the pressure on the tech giants to act.
Then CNN reported that even though Jones had been driven from nearly every online platform, the Infowars app was still available for download from Apple’s and Google’s app stores. The content was still out there!
Now that Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has stated that Alex Jones and Infowars won’t be banned from Twitter because no rules have been broken, CNN has decided to keep pushing and dug through Jones’ old tweets and found exactly what you’d expect to find there.
Twitter said it would have taken action against Alex Jones/InfoWars had the content that got them in trouble w/Facebook & YouTube been posted on Twitter.
But all of the content that initially led to YouTube/FB taking action is, in fact, posted to Twitterhttps://t.co/WpEZsLjr0i
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) August 9, 2018
A CNN review of InfoWars' and Jones' Twitter accounts found promotion of Sandy Hook / Parkland conspiracies, attacks on individuals based on their gender identity & religion, targeted harassment, videos glorifying violence, and more cc: @jack https://t.co/WpEZsLjr0i
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) August 9, 2018
Yeah, sounds like Twitter. Did they find any hateful attacks on the “groveling goblins” that are white people? We hear Twitter didn’t ban the reporter who posted those either.
I told Twitter Wednesday morning content that prompted other tech companies to take action against InfoWars/Jones was on Twitter. A spox declined to say if Twitter would review. Then @delbius suggested later that such content wasn't on Twitter? Perplexing. https://t.co/WpEZsLjr0i pic.twitter.com/E1cPB0mkvc
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) August 9, 2018
What’s perplexing to us is why the media, and CNN in particular, are acting as the terms-of-service police in this particular case? Why so much energy expended on ensuring that Alex Jones is scrubbed from the Internet when there are anti-Semites like Louis Farrakhan who get a pass? Is this policing of content going to be an ongoing thing for CNN, or is this just hot right now?
Oliver Darcy Thought Cop.
— Rob Eno (@Robeno) August 9, 2018
— Rob Eno (@Robeno) August 9, 2018
This is #Journalism ?
Why do you give a flying f*** who has a Twitter account? https://t.co/Eh3lH01qHV
— Stacey (@ScotsFyre) August 9, 2018
Imagine if Twitter actually followed this standard by removing *all* accounts that engaged in these activities and included 9/11 conspiracies or anything involving the Jews.
They are so fixated on vengeance, they do not seem aware of what it is they are demanding here. https://t.co/MfZq6eW1fe
— Chad Felix Greene (@chadfelixg) August 9, 2018
Just who in hell appointed @CNN to be the internet police? An arsonist started the California fires yet cnn continues to say its because of climate change. Fn idiots.
— USA PROUD (@USA_defender1) August 9, 2018
https://twitter.com/EriuCaillech/status/1027650215778500608
@jack was the one who wanted journalists to do the fact-checking and quality control. He's getting what he asked for. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
— Frostrages (@Frostreads) August 9, 2018
https://twitter.com/EriuCaillech/status/1027651469661458432
Hey, it looks like CNN got results … again. Thanks?
And now …. a lot of the tweets from Oliver’s story *poof* are gone. Interesting… https://t.co/nbixNwgYnz
— Hadas Gold (@Hadas_Gold) August 9, 2018
https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1027657536865009665
FWIW, I only had time to watch a sliver of the hundreds of hours of video that InfoWars/Jones have uploaded to Twitter. Most of the InfoWars shows are streamed and archived in their entirety on Twitter's platform. There's probably a lot more there.
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) August 9, 2018
There probably is. But you’d have to search to find it, and then click play to watch it. You know, make a choice as a consenting adult.
Update: All 20 of the tweets/videos in our story about how InfoWars / Alex Jones have violated Twitter standards have been deleted https://t.co/WpEZsLjr0i pic.twitter.com/skAmob4TfL
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) August 9, 2018
Thank you creepy little guy for your protection
— WTF Oh Hell no (@mrwoodsbiteme) August 9, 2018
https://twitter.com/pzdc20008/status/1027651290946564096
Neat. Now go after antifa and other radical left hate groups.
— Chris (@CML_Texas) August 9, 2018
Perhaps Jack should undergo doxxing?
— Kittyismad (@Katheri64414972) August 9, 2018
Yeah, like that guy who made the GIF with CNN’s logo. Unleash K-FILE on Jack and dig up some dirt.
If you people put half the energy into reporting real news as you do into ruining Alex Jones' life, you wouldn't be dead last in the ratings and @Acosta wouldn't be reduced to a muttering idiot every day at the White House. #FAKENEWS
— ns520az (@ns520az) August 9, 2018
As Twitchy reported Wednesday night, The Weekly Standard’s Jonathan V. Last made the case for more bannings, but people were concerned exactly who was going to wield the ban hammer and determine what was allowable and what was not — and it looks like CNN really wants the job.
@CNN hall monitors still trying to stifle free speech. Who's your next target? https://t.co/ps31xm6IO1
— Deplorable Petr (@PragueArtist) August 9, 2018
Our question isn’t so much who’s the next target but will there even be a next target? Or does this news cycle die when Twitter finally relents and bans Jones like everyone else?
If you think CNN is going after Alex Jones hard now, wait until he finds the missing plane before them
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) August 9, 2018
If CNN’s taking requests, Farrakhan’s videos would be a great place to start. Hint, hint.
Related:
CNN's Oliver Darcy wants the media given credit for Alex Jones being removed from tech platforms https://t.co/ubfmDsyebY
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) August 6, 2018
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