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Mar. 4th, 2018 07:27 pm
До печально известного Алекса Джонса, "настоящего американца" по версии Дугина, добрались проклятые глобалисты. Его канал в YouTube оказался под угрозой закрытия. Вдобавок от этого канала массово отрекаются рекламодатели. Вдобавок на Джонса подали иски его бывшие сотрудники, обвиняя его в сексуальных домогательствах, а также расистских и антисемитских высказываниях.
Alex Jones has had, to put it mildly, a terrible week. Not only did former InfoWars employees file complaints to accuse him of sexual harassment, discrimination, and bullying, but he also butted heads with YouTube in a big way. That is to say, the platform pulled a video from the Alex Jones Channel, and the platform’s “three strikes” policy meant that the account would inevitably be shuttered if the trend continued. The video in question involved Jones accusing Florida school shooting survivors of being “crisis actors.” Now, it looks like Jones racked up the other two strikes and shall pay the price.
As a result, Jones is now very upset because YouTube has frozen his channel and plans to fully delete it (and all of its content) on Sunday. He claimed to have received a warning about the impending shutdown while (also conveniently) announcing his new video page.
Jones is, of course, claiming censorship, although any First Amendment arguments really don’t apply in the case of a privately-run company like YouTube. However, there’s an another twist at work here. Over the past few days, Jones has been the subject of an advertiser exodus because several companies didn’t even realize their ads were running on Jones’ conspiracy-theory videos.
https://uproxx.com/news/alex-jones-youtube-channel-shutdown/
Russian state TV shows Alex Jones, pledging allegiance to Putin "and his great minion Trump," noting this is no longer funny for Trump admin pic.twitter.com/vl8qNesHOX
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) October 30, 2017
Казалось бы, ничего не предвещало таких проблем. Два месяца назад Джонс потирал руки, заманивая после отставки Стива Бэннона разочарованную аудиторию Breitbart.
The MAGA base has come to expect specific things from its news content, which Breitbart provided in relentless streams: a strong anti-establishment stance that included targeting the media and both major political parties, and a penchant for “triggering the libs,” a phrase used to ridicule progressive stances on cultural and social issues. Those are the elements that Trump weaponized to help him achieve victory.
After Trump took the White House, and following a year of reported chaos within the administration, the audience’s ethos now also includes unapologetic Trump loyalty, a defense mechanism that serves as a validation of their electoral choice. If Breitbart’s readers ultimately side with Trump and flee the website, Alex Jones’ Infowars seems like a prime candidate to pick up the disgruntled MAGA crowd by providing those readers the fix they’re looking for.
The fact is that Infowars has fewer constraints than Breitbart because it’s a financially independent outlet reportedly grossing close to $10 million a year -- not from advertisers, but from selling nootropic supplements and other merchandise. And this relative independence will only incentivize Jones to push forward on the path of bigotry, homophobia, and lies by pushing even more conspiracy theories and Trump propaganda that captivate the MAGA audience.
https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/01/05/following-trump-bannon-feud-infowars-setting-itself-capture-breitbart-s-disillusioned-readers/218989
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