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Not content to let YouTube and Facebook be the dominant players in the censorship game, now CNN entered the mix. It is coming out that CNN is contacting all advertisers on the Alex Jones YouTube channel resulting in many major brands blacklisting the channel.
CNN has discovered ads on InfoWars' channels from companies and organizations such as Nike (NKE), Acer, 20th Century Fox, Paramount Network, the Mormon Church, Moen, Expedia (EXPE), Alibaba (BABA), HomeAway, Mozilla, the NRA, Honey, Wix and ClassPass.
Even an ad for USA for UNHCR, a group that supports the UN refugee agency UNHCR, asking for donations for Rohingya refugees was shown on an InfoWars YouTube channel.
Many of the brands -- including Nike, Moen, Expedia, Acer, ClassPass, Honey, Alibaba and OneFamily -- have suspended ads on InfoWars' channels after being contacted by CNN for comment. The companies, with the exception of Alibaba, which declined to comment, said they had been unaware their ads were running on The Alex Jones Channel. CNN discovered the HomeAway advertising shortly before publishing this story, and has not yet received a response from that company.
Ads were purchased mostly through YouTube which then directs them based upon the demographics. Companies can blacklist those channels they do not want to advertise on.
Jones' YouTube channel was subject to two strikes in the past few weeks. YouTube quickly (and silently) removed the second strike. Of late, many conspiracy and conservative sites were targeted by the meda-site since the Parkland shooting incident.
YouTube blamed the actions on the screeners.
"As we work to hire rapidly and ramp up our policy enforcement teams throughout 2018, newer members may misapply some of our policies resulting in mistaken removals," wrote a YouTube spokesman in an email. "We’re continuing to enforce our existing policies regarding harmful and dangerous content, they have not changed. We’ll reinstate any videos that were removed in error."
This is not the first time Alex Jones endured this. Last February, Infowars was dropped by San Francisco ad agency AdRoll.
AdRoll told Jones that they were dropping him due to the fact that products are "retargeted" to the InfoWars website - a practice of relevant advertisements jumping from site to site to follow consumer browsing habits.
Being based in San Francisco, it is not difficult to conclude the political leanings of this agency. Further adding to the speculation are donations given by various members of AdRoll to Democratic causes.
Interestingly, AdRoll's head of retargeting, Peter Clark, contributed to the "Democratic Hope Fund" in 2015.
InfoWars now has a battle on many fronts to fight.
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