We didn’t suspend Alex Jones or Infowars yesterday. We know that’s hard for many but the reason is simple: he hasn’t violated our rules. We’ll enforce if he does. And we’ll continue to promote a healthy conversational environment by ensuring tweets aren’t artificially amplified.
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Accounts like Jones' can often sensationalize issues and spread unsubstantiated rumors, so it’s critical journalists document, validate, and refute such information directly so people can form their own opinions. This is what serves the public conversation best.
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Not “rumors” but his LIES inflicting ongoing, additional suffering to the parents of the murdered Sandy Hook children
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Pretty sure journalists did their part documenting that Sandy Hook was a real slaughter of 1st-graders & their teachers. Pretty sure they've validated the unspeakable trauma belonging to the families of those slain. Pretty sure they've refuted the monstrous lie that it was a hoax
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Not at all sure what that has to do w/you giving a platform to a person who uses it to further traumatize victims. Guess it's the same idea behind why you don't permanently ban the guy who photoshopped me into a concentration camp uniform with a giant yellow star next to my head.
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Can you explain why people who make multiple threats of violence are allowed to continue using your platform?
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....yeah, and when they document, validate, and refute that information, sometimes on your platform, they often receive death threats, that you do nothing to stop
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