Editorial Board
Did Alex Jones Expose Social Media’s Neutrality Delusion?
The shunning of a conspiratorial radio host shows a broader incoherence in the tech business.
Something is happening here, but you don’t know what it is.
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What, exactly, did Alex Jones do wrong?
Jones, a radio host and proprietor of a conspiracy site called Infowars, is a ghoulish provocateur best known for harassing the parents of murdered children. His show is a stage for paranoia, delusion and expansive bigotries. This week, Apple Inc., Facebook Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube and others started removing Jones’s content from their platforms or making it harder to find. (Twitter Inc. declined to join them.)