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I cover Apple and broader Silicon Valley for The New York Times. WSJ alum. jack.nicas@nytimes.com | DMs open

Oakland, CA
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    Aug 2

    Google Maps recently began telling me I work in the San Francisco neighborhood The East Cut. Haven’t heard of it? Neither had I. So I investigated…

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    Aug 8

    Thanks for an uplifting story

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  3. Aug 8

    Apple, Google and Facebook purged Infowars from their services. Now its app is among the hottest in the country.

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  4. Aug 8

    That Apple and Google are facilitating more downloads of the Infowars app while erasing the site’s content from other areas show the often confusing nature of their policy enforcement. We tried to decipher what the tech firms allow & what they don’t here:

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  5. Aug 8

    Apple and Google are opaque about how they rank apps but people who track them say the rankings often reflect download velocity. That means this isn’t terribly surprising; the Infowar bans have led to more downloads of its app.

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  6. Aug 8

    In the news category, Infowars is No. 3 on iPhones and No. 6 on Android, above all mainstream news organizations.

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  7. Aug 8

    In Apple’s App Store, it’s the No. 83 overall free app, above apps like LinkedIn and Airbnb.

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  8. Aug 8

    Apple and Google have taken down some Infowars content but left up its app. Let’s see how it’s performing today. In the Google Play store, it’s the No. 1 trending app right now.

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  9. Aug 8

    In today’s rankings, Infowars has climbed another spot to become Apple’s No. 3 news app.

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    Aug 7

    Are you confused about what Facebook, Google, Apple, Twitter, etc will and won’t allow on their platforms? The ⁦⁩ tech team is here to explain it to you:

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  11. Aug 7

    YouTube deleted Alex Jones's wildly popular channel yesterday. But remember that the site also once gave Alex Jones a literal trophy for his work.

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  12. Aug 7

    Alex Jones has financed Infowars with sales of diet supplements, survivalist gear & air filters. But money is not a prime motivator, he told this past weekend. “Money is the jet fuel for the jet bombers I use to drop truth bombs."

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  13. Aug 7

    Another Apple show underway:

    It’s true.
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  14. Aug 7

    Well, the bans were great for Infowars app downloads. It’s the No. 4 news app in Apple’s App Store today, ranking above all mainstream news organizations. (And yes, Apple and Google deleted some Infowars content but kept their apps available.)

    Infowars is no. 4 in all news apps
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  15. Aug 6

    I'm not sure if there were actually Infowars videos on YouPorn or if the site is just trolling us, but I'm not checking.

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  16. Aug 6

    Since its launch July 9, the Infowars app on iOS and Android has been downloaded 92,800 times, according to . Over the same period, CNN's app has 318,400 downloads, the Washington Post has 64,300, and Reuters has 32,600.

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  17. Aug 6

    Apple has removed Infowars from its podcasts app and Google has removed it from YouTube. But the Infowars app is still thriving in their app stores.

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  18. Aug 6

    Breaking: YouPorn is also banning Alex Jones. This is turning out to be a really tough day for Alex.

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  19. Aug 6

    A Twitter spokesman has gotten back to us to say Alex Jones and Infowars do not currently violate Twitter's rules.

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  20. Aug 6

    This is the URL for The Alex Jones Channel, which you can see for yourself, "has been terminated for violating YouTube's Community Guidelines."

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  21. Aug 6

    YouTube now appears to have terminated Alex Jones' channel, which had more than 2.4 million subscribers. That follows moves from Apple, Facebook and Spotify against Alex Jones and his Infowars site in the past 24 hours.

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