This will be one of social media’s darkest legacies. Every single one of these companies spent more time creating excuses for Alex Jones than protecting the victims of his conspiracies like Lenny Pozner. @jack still does. That is what he will be remembered for. https://t.co/DORNyvKCYh
Keljhou (@Keljhou)
HERE IT IS, FOLKS. The whole grift in one neat little package. White supremacists gamed @YouTube’s near zero desire to police their platform to gain an audience spouting bigotry, get monetized from major corporations and turn it into a job. Only problem is that no one noticed. https://t.co/dpHNvmoPUS
slpng_giants (@slpng_giants)
This is a bombshell by @JuddLegum. 8Chan, the site where both the Poway and Christchurch shooters posted their manifestos while being cheered on by other posters, is being monetized by @amazon. Even worse, they won’t do anything about it because they don’t give a shit. https://t.co/KCZ0z9bpBN
slpng_giants (@slpng_giants)
Why is it that @Twitter can’t figure this shit out when journalists and researchers who USE Twitter can? Enough of this user-policing crap. Twitter needs to invest heavily in their safety and disinfo departments. https://t.co/fNtnDhjGU7
kittrdg (@kittrdg)
While other platforms like @twitter are *starting* to enforce their Terms of Service, @facebook continues to prove that nothing- not disinfo, harassment or violence - is out of bounds. Facebook has already been responsible for kicking off a genocide. You’d think they’d learn https://t.co/v8Cc3EeusJ
slpng_giants (@slpng_giants)
.@TysonFoods, please reconsider your funding of @SteveKingIA. He has been a consistent supporter of white supremacists. As a company that needs to appeal to a diverse audience, why support a man who clearly does not share those values? https://t.co/EhpIQbkCmD
OneDoneAndDone (@OneDoneAndDone)
HERE IT IS, FOLKS. The whole grift in one neat little package. White supremacists gamed @YouTube’s near zero desire to police their platform to gain an audience spouting bigotry, get monetized from major corporations and turn it into a job. Only problem is that no one noticed. https://t.co/dpHNvmoPUS
YakovPettersson (@YakovPettersson)
While the biggest social media companies like @YouTube and @Facebook continue to provide platforms to racists and disinformation peddlers, counter to their own Terms of Service, the smaller companies like @Mailchimp are consistent in their enforcement. Go figure.
BethGross1234 (@BethGross1234)
Please watch tonight’s @60Minutes tonight to see @SusanWojcicki try to defend @YouTube’s historically awful decision-making regarding hate on the platform. Today, @TeamYouTube refused to suspend a channel that talked about a “Jew Coup” by “seditious Jews.” Indefensible. https://t.co/g4ee8L2tMm
brooks_goon (@brooks_goon)
It is unconscionable that a network would air this crap, a page out of the white nationalist handbook. Why do advertisers, who need to appeal to people of all ethnic backgrounds, continue to support this man’s show? It is not politics. It is pure, unabashed white supremacy. https://t.co/gCJ9iRPaPU
pm15232 (@pm15232)
Guns don’t kill people. Headphones and video games and drugs and Godless culture and too many school entrances and overmedication and mainstream media and lack of male role models and safe spaces and progressive culture and solid color backpacks and Marylin Manson
JimKenefick (@JimKenefick)
Keep in mind that @facebook likely makes $7 million in one minute. Like many of these “donations,” this is intended to cover up for egregious acts. For FB, that means allowing hate and extremism to flourish & monetize, the undermining of democracy and the destruction of truth. https://t.co/v1yrSvdGnE
jenmakesthings (@jenmakesthings)
Tech and social media companies have given racists, disinformation peddlers and harassers opportunities that they would never have dreamed of before. This has nothing to do with free speech, just free reach, and no one doles it out like Silicon Valley.
kelsonanderson (@kelsonanderson)
This will be one of social media’s darkest legacies. Every single one of these companies spent more time creating excuses for Alex Jones than protecting the victims of his conspiracies like Lenny Pozner. @jack still does. That is what he will be remembered for. https://t.co/DORNyvKCYh
debr1776 (@debr1776)
@60Minutes .@SusanWojcicki would like everyone to believe that “free speech” applies to her platform, but it as dishonest an argument as you can get. @YouTube is an advertising and data mining platform. Free speech protects us from gov’t censorship, not our place on a paid social platform.
Saiyan316 (@Saiyan316)
Hey @jack. How do you square banning a woman protecting her children from a molester on your platform, but protect Alex Jones, who has repeatedly harassed Sandy Hook parents and threatened Robert Mueller? Which is it? Define these rules for us! https://t.co/uzVnW2p2Jp
uosdwisrdewohmi (@uosdwisrdewohmi)
The racists are really whipped into a frenzy over this @60Minutes piece tonight because they know their days of being able to spread their crap on these paid advertising platforms are numbered. Ultimately, the platforms are going to choose advertising dollars over all else.
endofbellcurve (@endofbellcurve)
This tweet featuring the idea of a “Jew Coup” from “seditious Jews” may have been removed from @YouTube, but it’s still up here, @TwitterSafety & @jack. This virulent anti-Semitism very clearly violates your Terms of Service. Why is it still here? https://t.co/DWZ87CUF5X
LMBRadio (@LMBRadio)
Why is it that @Twitter can’t figure this shit out when journalists and researchers who USE Twitter can? Enough of this user-policing crap. Twitter needs to invest heavily in their safety and disinfo departments. https://t.co/fNtnDhjGU7
NannaHannah (@NannaHannah)
GOOD. Don’t buy into the tin-foil cap stuff. This asshole knows exactly what he’s doing: Creating conspiracies to push a racist ideology and cause real-life pain to families of school shooting victims while making millions on boner pills. Fuck him. https://t.co/SVIphwnXuZ
barret_williams (@barret_williams)
One week ago today, 11 people were killed at the Tree of Life synagogue by an anti-Semitic shooter who was radicalized on the Internet. A lot happens every single day right now in this country, but don’t let yourself forget this horrific event.
megbowman1 (@megbowman1)
Never thought that @jack could or should suspend the president’s @twitter account, but this tweet is a pretty clear violation of their hateful conduct policy. What applies to one person should apply to all. This tweet is incredibly Islamophobic and should be removed. https://t.co/U7G2hk6Ltw
Thomas1791 (@Thomas1791)
While other platforms like @twitter are *starting* to enforce their Terms of Service, @facebook continues to prove that nothing- not disinfo, harassment or violence - is out of bounds. Facebook has already been responsible for kicking off a genocide. You’d think they’d learn https://t.co/v8Cc3EeusJ
theUSideal (@theUSideal)
Remember, @amazon continues to monetize Breitbart with advertising dollars despite over 600 of their own employees asking them to stop and dozens of their merchants asking them not to place them on the site. @JeffBezos is the perfect example of lack of responsibility in tech.
vtknitboy (@vtknitboy)
There is no good reason why David Duke, former leaders of the KKK, should still have an account on @Twitter, let alone command an army of racist trolls on here, and yet he still commands an outsized influence over @jack and this platform. https://t.co/V9W2LYeMFr
WLynnPosey (@WLynnPosey)
CONFIRMED: @TeamYouTube has removed the TruNews video about a “Jew Crew” about “seditious Jews,” but didn’t suspend the account. This was anti-Semitism at its very worst. That @YouTube is okay with this account on their platform is horrendous. https://t.co/32f0bTDLgx
DPaget (@DPaget)
CONFIRMED: Hate group Identity Evropa has been banned from @YouTube. Good to see platforms starting to enforce their Terms of Service. They still have a long, long way to go, but these are good steps. https://t.co/BJFCxIWxUL
yogoldsmith (@yogoldsmith)
.@TysonFoods, please reconsider your funding of @SteveKingIA. He has been a consistent supporter of white supremacists. As a company that needs to appeal to a diverse audience, why support a man who clearly does not share those values? https://t.co/EhpIQbkCmD
AlexFTweets (@AlexFTweets)
For now, platforms like @YouTube and @Facebook are holding the line with this “free speech” argument that doesn’t apply to them. As soon as advertisers start backing away because of brand safety issues (which they already are) they will dump the Nazis without thinking twice.
HorrifiedCND (@HorrifiedCND)
“I think this is a very complex issue and a lot of people have different opinions.” This, on why his company should get paid by politicians to run demonstrably false info in ads, destroying the entire concept of truth. Is this dude begging for regulation or what? https://t.co/1HFsQE6rXJ
dpmax100 (@dpmax100)
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VanBracken (@VanBracken)
This has happened with Breitbart, monetizing through @googleads, Alex Jones with @facebook and Nazis with @Square. Without hard working journalists, members of the Sleeping Giants community and other engaged citizens, this would go on unabated because tech companies do not care.
DarylSurat (@DarylSurat)
ADVERTISERS: By continuing to give your money to Fox News, this is what you are supporting. The screeds on this channel aren’t just similar to those of white supremacists. They are the exact same words as those used by white supremacists. https://t.co/EU7LFQAWjL
HoffmanHopes (@HoffmanHopes)
The ability of disinformation to spread at maximum velocity is something that none of us are prepared for, especially the social media companies who not only don’t know how to stop it, but have no interest in doing it. https://t.co/SRgf51Hogr
pxbern (@pxbern)
.@foxnews continues to push divisive, racist and xenophobic content every single day through their website, @TuckerCarlson & @IngrahamAngle. The fact that advertisers still support this will ultimately reflect very poorly on them. This should have no place in our discourse. https://t.co/O8jUbhmoPY
HonoriaLucasta (@HonoriaLucasta)
This is a bombshell by @JuddLegum. 8Chan, the site where both the Poway and Christchurch shooters posted their manifestos while being cheered on by other posters, is being monetized by @amazon. Even worse, they won’t do anything about it because they don’t give a shit. https://t.co/KCZ0z9bpBN
Anarchoslogica (@Anarchoslogica)