Naturally, the Infowars Official app is now spiking on Apple's App Store charts. That app, called Infowars Official, has some of the exact same content as the podcast - including livestreams and the most recently recorded broadcast of 'The Alex Jones Show.'Īpple CEO Tim Cook and head of internet services Eddy Cue didn't think the app violated Apple's policy, although they made the call to pull the podcasts because they believed they qualified as hate speech, according to CNN. App Store, ahead of CNN, Fox News, and The New York Times.Īpple removed five Infowars podcasts from iTunes late Sunday night, starting a domino reaction of other tech companies removing the controversial media group's content from their platforms. The removed podcasts included the popular 'The Alex Jones Show,' which has been known to promote conspiracy theories.īut although Apple removed Infowars from its podcast directory, it did not remove the official Infowars app from its separate App Store platform. It now looks like the decision to remove the podcasts has caused downloads of the Infowars app to spike - o ne analyst said it looked like downloads had gone up 10x.However, Apple didn't remove the official Infowars app from its App Store, which allows access to much of the same material.Apple removed most of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' Infowars podcasts from its directory on Sunday.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.

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