Advertisers have demanded to be taken off Infowars founder Alex Jones’ YouTube channel, but he claims that the video-sharing website is trying to delete his content altogether.
‘The Alex Jones channel with billions of views is frozen. We have been told it will be deleted tomorrow and all 33 thousands videos will be erased. We just set up this new page subscribe if you want to see what the SPLC wants censored..,’ Jones tweeted Saturday evening.
The new YouTube channel Jones was referring to is called Inforwars Censored. As of Sunday morning, nine videos had been posted on that account.
Advertisers have demanded to be taken off InfoWars founder Alex Jones’ YouTube channel, but he claims that the video-sharing website is trying to delete his content altogether
‘The Alex Jones channel with billions of views is frozen. We have been told it will be deleted tomorrow and all 33 thousands videos will be erased. We just set up this new page subscribe if you want to see what the SPLC wants censored..,’ Jones tweeted Saturday evening
Though the conspiracy theorist believes that Sunday is the day when his YouTube channel, which boasts has 2.2 million subscribers, will be deleted, YouTube has ‘no plans’ to delete the account ‘at present’.
YouTube told CBS that they had not told Jones that his account would be deleted.
According to the video-sharing site, that’s not how they operate.
As YouTube’s CEO Susan Wojcicki explained last month, YouTube ‘has a three-strike rule’.
‘If somebody violates three times then we actually terminate those accounts,’ she said at the time.
Jones, who once called the Sandy Hook shooting a hoax, reportedly has two strikes against him.
His second strike came shortly after he took aim at the survivors of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting that left 17 dead after gunman Nikolas Cruz opened fire at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last month.
Jones posted a video in February with the headline ‘David Hogg Can’t Remember His Lines’.
Though the conspiracy theorist believes that Sunday is the day when his YouTube channel, which boasts has 2.2 million subscribers, will be deleted, YouTube has ‘no plans’ to delete the account ‘at present’
The video, in which Jones called Hogg a ‘crisis actor’, was taken down a short time later.
In another video, Jones claimed ‘if you even talk about [Hogg], they delete your videos’.
YouTube, based in San Bruno, California, brought in a team of more than 10,000 new moderators to spot fake news, misleading and extreme footage In December 2017.
Staff took down footage and even whole channels in response to the Parkland mass shooting, which took place on February 14.
Two weeks ago, it was alleged that Jones discriminated against his staff, laughed along with racist and anti-Semitic slurs against former employees and even groped one female worker.
The controversial Infowars owner joked with staff who called Rob Jacobson ‘The Jewish Individual’, ‘The Resident Jew’ and shouted ‘Yacobson’ across the office, it was claimed in bombshell documents.
Jones allegedly continually bullied, ridiculed and humiliated Jacobson – who worked for Jones’ company Infowars for 13 years – before firing him last May.
Jacobson is in the process of suing Jones for discrimination, harassment and unfair dismissal and his lawyers have submitted a complaint to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
A second former employee has claimed she suffered ‘harassment and discrimination’ at the hands of Jones and other senior managers at Infowars based on her race.