Infowars, tech giants and the responsibility of publishers - BBC Newsnight
August 13, 2018
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as posted by the channelThe controversial right-wing media platform, Infowars, has been removed from several social media platforms for violating their rules.
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The founder, Alex Jones, claims he is being silenced and continues to post on Twitter, where he has not been banned.
Kirsty Wark is joined by Divya Narendra, who reached a settlement with Facebook in a dispute over the origins of the idea, and Jaron Lainer, a virtual reality pioneer and author of Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, to discuss.
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