Facebook’s rationale for booting Alex Jones and InfoWars: you can lie, but you can’t be hateful
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Facebook’s rationale for booting Alex Jones and InfoWars: you can lie, but you can’t be hateful

Facebook has joined Apple, Youtube, and Disqus in banning Alex Jones and yanking his InfoWars pages. Jones and his supporters are livid, claiming free speech violations, while liberals are wondering what took so long. The challenge here is that lying on Facebook is perfectly fine; only “hate speech” will get you banned. Let’s take a…