YouTube issued a second strike to Alex Jones’s main channel early Tuesday over a pair of videos related to the Florida school shooting – bringing it perilously close to termination, and loss of one of its main revenue streams, however the second strike was removed hours later for unknown reasons.
The offending videos, “The Truth About Crisis Actors In The Florida Shooting,” and “What Is To Blame For The Florida High School Shooting” have been removed from YouTube, but can be seen here on the Infowars website.
While a second strike restricts a channel from posting new content for two weeks, a third strike can result in a ban from the platform.
This is the second strike applied to your account within three months,” the notice reads. “As a result, you’re unable to post new content to YouTube for two weeks. If there are no further issues, the ability to upload will be automatically restored after this two week period.”
Infowars has referred to the YouTube strikes as a “CNN lobbying campaign,” after CNN reported that they had “identified three similar YouTube videos from InfoWars” which they flagged to YouTube. A YouTube spokesperson responded at the time that those videos were under review.
The Alex Jones Channel, which has over 2.2 million subscribers, first came under fire over a video suggesting that a survivor of the Parkland school shooting, David Hogg, was coached and given lines for interviews with various media outlets following the Valentines Day massacre which left 17 dead.
The video was removed for a violation of YouTube’s “harassment and bullying” policy and the channel was issued a strike.
The video featured a clip of Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg appearing to flub scripted lines – leading many to believe he has been coached on what to say as he tours around the country to promote an aggressive gun control agenda:
YouTube has all but scrubbed this clip of Hogg from its platform.
Earlier in the day, David Hogg shot off a barrage of tweets making fun of Alex Jones – which started off with Hogg telling Jones he wanted to [sic] “come on and clear some of this up because clearly as a shit journalist you can’t clearly“
Common Core poster child fail…
Jones may have a valid point now and again, but as he is sycophant of Israel, we do not listen to him.
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Seen others mention believing Jones is pro-Israeli too but never noticed first hand myself.
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EXCLUSIVE: Fired Infowars staffers at war with Alex Jones – one claiming he was teased as the site’s ‘resident Jew’ while African American worker says she was ‘mocked’ for her skin tone and Jones ‘grabbed her behind’
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5419371/Former-Infowars-employees-claim-Alex-Jones-harassed-them.html#ixzz58TXOf7oO
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Reblogged this on On the Patio and commented:
Nice article that shows the MSM at their best. And in this case it didn’t work! Nice! Yeah! And YouTube is biased. So is Facebook!
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