Spotify Removes ‘Alex Jones Show’ Podcasts That Were Recently Uploaded to the Service

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Spotify appears to have quietly pulled several episodes “The Alex Jones Show,” hosted by the notorious right-wing conspiracy theorist and founder of Infowars

Show,” hosted by the notorious right-wing conspiracy theorist and founder of Infowars, after a media watchdog group discovered that several episodes had appeared on the streaming service in recent days.did the same, citing violations of their hate-speech policies.uploaded daily to Spotify

, according to a report Wednesday by Media Matters for America, a liberal advocacy group. In addition, Jones’ podcast was the first result that appeared on Spotify when searching for “Infowars.” By Thursday morning, the episodes of “The Alex Jones Show” were no longer available on Spotify. A Spotify rep declined to comment.

It’s not clear who had uploaded “The Alex Jones Show” episodes to Spotify. The platform allows users to self-publish audio content, although Spotify says that is reviewed by human moderators and is subject to restrictions. It now has a vast catalog of podcast programming: At the end of 2021, Spotify hosted 3.6 million podcasts, up from

 

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