Sources describe how Mark Zuckerberg arrived at the decision to take down Infowars, finally making up his mind after seeing news of Apple's removal of podcasts
and Twitter didn't Remy Smidt / BuzzFeed News : This Mom Of A Sandy Hook Victim Says That She Is Constantly Harassed On Twitter Because Of Alex Jones And InfoWars Laura Hudson / The Verge : Twitter is wrong: facts are not enough to combat Alex Jones Karissa Bell / Mashable : Apple influenced Mark Zuckerberg's decision to ban InfoWars, report says reddit.com : SocietyTwitter is wrong about Alex Jones: facts are not enough to combat conspiracy theories. Kyle Perisic / The Daily Caller : Twitter CEO Hints At Adapting New Values — Possibly Free Speech Rob Price / Business Insider : Mark Zuckerberg reportedly suspects Alex Jones wanted to be banned from Facebook for the attention Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney : Analysis of Infowars Twitter content shows videos that led to YouTube and other bans were still live, while other tweets showed more Twitter rules violations Tweets: Kara Swisher / @karaswisher : So Mark was for Infowars until he was against Infowars? Yep! Read this @kevinroose column and then see what he said about naughty Alex on Recode Decode podcast from less than a month ago: http://www.recode.net/... #heavyliestheheadwhowearsthecrown http://www.nytimes.com/... NYTimes Tech / @nytimestech : There are legitimate questions, still unanswered, about what to do about the huge corporations that control large pieces of our modern communications infrastructure, @kevinroose says http://www.nytimes.com/... Will Oremus / @willoremus : Besides being a good article, this @kevinroose NYT piece sets a new bar for how to concisely explain who Alex Jones is. http://www.nytimes.com/... http://twitter.com/... Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy : —@kevinroose nails it. This seems to be one of main reasons why social media companies have been reluctant to enforce their standards when it comes to Jones/InfoWars http://www.nytimes.com/... http://twitter.com/... See also Mediagazer