Facebook Bans Alex Jones, Other Extremists—but Not as Planned

On Thursday at around 2 pm ET, multiple news outlets simultaneously “broke” a story that six particularly toxic extremists and one conspiracy theorist organization had been banned from Facebook and Instagram. Only, they hadn’t. Paris Martineau covers platforms, online influence, and social media manipulation for WIRED. Stories by CNN, the Verge, The Atlantic, and The …

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