Apple permanently banned InfoWars from the App Store, but it’s still on Android

Alex Jones on
InfoWars.
Screenshot/Infowars

• Apple on Friday banned the InfoWars app from its App Store
  for violating the company’s rules about “objectionable content.”
• InfoWars, a well-known conspiracy theory outlet, has recently
  been kicked off various web platforms, including being
  permanently banned from Twitter.
• The InfoWars app is still extant on the Google Play Store for
  Android phones, and has over 100,000 downloads.

Apple permanently banned InfoWars, the conspiracy theory outlet
owned by Alex Jones, on Friday
citing violations of its rules on “objectionable content.”

Apple told Reuters that InfoWars had specifically violated rules
on, “defamatory, discriminatory, or mean-spirited content,
including references or commentary about religion, race, sexual
orientation, gender, national/ethnic origin, or other targeted
groups, particularly if the app is likely to humiliate,
intimidate, or place a targeted individual or group in harm’s
way.”

Alex Jones, the primary host on InfoWars, has previously claimed
that
the Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax using child actors,
and was
permanently banned from Twitter for violating its abusive
behaviour policy. In early August, Apple led a round of tech
giants like Facebook and YouTube in
scrubbing many of Jones’s podcasts from iTunes.

A search for “InfoWars Official” on the App Store now brings up a
suggestion for The Rebel Media’s app, a far-right Canadian outlet
associated with the alt-right.

The “InfoWars Official” app is still alive and well on Android,
with over 100,000 downloads on the Google Play store. 

This
screenshot was taken by Business Insider at 10:28
BST.
Google Play/Business
Insider

Business Insider has contacted Google for details on its
guidelines for the Google Play store, and whether InfoWars has
ever infringed any of them.