Spotify Removes 'Alex Jones Show' Podcasts That Were Recently Uploaded to the Service

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Source: Variety

Spotify appears to have quietly pulled several episodes “The Alex Jones Show,” hosted by the notorious right-wing conspiracy theorist and founder of Infowars, after a media watchdog group discovered that several episodes had appeared on the streaming service in recent days.

In 2018, Spotify banned Jones from its platform, after Apple Podcasts, Facebook and YouTube did the same, citing violations of their hate-speech policies.

Despite that, since Feb. 20, full-length episodes of “The Alex Jones Show” had been uploaded daily to Spotify, according to a report Wednesday by Media Matters for America, a liberal advocacy group. In addition, Jones’ podcast was the first result that appeared on Spotify when searching for “Infowars.”

By Thursday morning, the episodes of “The Alex Jones Show” were no longer available on Spotify. A Spotify rep declined to comment.

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[AntiFascist]

1. Looks like he's being glorified on CNN n/t

[certainot]

2. a lot of major rw radio hosts use it and should get taken off for global warming and covid denial

alone - just like rogan they're all just limbaugh piggybackers

[Grokenstein]

3. Is Spotty still dying on the Joe Rogan hill?

Still available on Spotify, however, is the Oct. 27, 2020, episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” in which Jones appeared as a guest. During the podcast, Jones claimed the COVID pandemic was being used by elites to “reorganize society” and “end prosperity,” while also asserting that “a lot of studies” have shown that wearing masks doesn’t protect people in large groups from getting infected with the coronavirus. Jones also falsely claimed that an oral vaccine funded by Bill Gates caused polio among all of those who received it.

Jones is a rabid animal but Rogan is an active enabler. Which is worse, really?

[AZLD4Candidate]

4. Spotify only has room for one insane conspiracy theory show.