Facebook bans Alex Jones, Infowars, Louis Farrakhan, and others

[Angry Floof]

Facebook bans Alex Jones, Infowars, Louis Farrakhan, and others it deems “dangerous”

Months after he was kicked off Twitter, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is off Facebook and Instagram, too. So are a host of other right-wing extremists and Louis Farrakhan, a Nation of Islam leader who has espoused anti-Semitic views.

Facebook on Thursday announced that it was banning Jones, Farrakhan, Paul Nehlen, Milo Yiannopoulos, Paul Joseph Watson, Laura Loomer, and Infowars, which Jones runs, from both its platform and Instagram, which it owns. The company says the decision has been made under its policies against dangerous individuals and organizations.

 

[RavenSky]

Now if only @Jack Dorsey would ban Trump from Twitter for the same reason

 

[Derec]

Farakkkhan should have been banned decades ago. What took them so long?

 

[Arctish]

Farakkkhan should have been banned decades ago. What took them so long?

Money.

It's hard to give up an opportunity to make money by hosting clickbait, memes, and the kind of content people endlessly share, like racism, proselytizing, and TimeCubes.

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

Farakkkhan should have been banned decades ago. What took them so long?

Money.

It's hard to give up an opportunity to make money by hosting clickbait, memes, and the kind of content people endlessly share, like racism, proselytizing, and TimeCubes.

People love freak shows.

 

[repoman]

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw-dcKvHgsV/

Snoop Dogg!

 

[repoman]

Paul Nehlen, not Paul Joseph Watson.

 

[J842P]

Farakkkhan should have been banned decades ago. What took them so long?

Facebook has barely existed for a decade, especially as a prominent platform. And for the majority of time that it has existed, I don't think that the typical user (a teenager around the late 2000's early 2010's) would have had the faintest idea who Farrakhan was.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Farakkkhan should have been banned decades ago. What took them so long?

Money.

It's hard to give up an opportunity to make money by hosting clickbait, memes, and the kind of content people endlessly share, like racism, proselytizing, and TimeCubes.

People love freak shows.

Though Charlie Sheen learned that people only love freak shows when they are free.