Facebook takes down 22 pages connected to In foWars’ Alex Jones

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Facebook’s crackdown versus reactionary conspiracy theorist Alex Jones isn’t over.

On Tuesday, the social networks giant stated it eliminated 22 pages connected to Jones, who established the conspiracy website In foWars. The relocation follows Facebook took down 4 of Jones’ pages in August for breaking the social networks website’s guidelines versus glorifying violence, hate speech and bullying.

Facebook stated it prohibited more of Jones’ pages due to the fact that of a modification it made to its “recidivism policy” inJanuary That policy at first disallowed Facebook users from producing brand-new pages that looked comparable to ones gotten rid of for breaking its guidelines. The business upgraded the policy and it now uses to existing pages.

The 22 pages that Facebook took down, which are based in the United States and Brazil, are connected to the ones it eliminated in August.

“In this first group of Pages we’ve removed, we’ve focused on whether Pages we previously removed that had a lot of followers had begun to use other Pages to continue the same activity,” a Facebook representative stated in a declaration. “The Pages we removed today are the first group we identified to violate this policy.”

Facebook and other tech business, consisting of Google and Twitter, are under more pressure to do more to punish hate speech and phony news. But the business have actually likewise dealt with claims that its reducing conservative speech, which they have actually rejected. Apple, Spotify, YouTube and Twitter have actually likewise punishedJones

Jones has actually come under fire for spreading out conspiracy theories about the 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York and the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School inConnecticut Jones’ Facebook profile is likewise still up.

Facebook kept in mind that the August page take-down wasn’t due to spreading out phony news or scams.

Jones didn’t right away react to an ask for remark.

CNET’s Ian Sherr added to this report.

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