Mark Zuckerberg personally intervened to soften Alex Jones' Facebook ban, a report claims

Mark Zuckerberg stepped in to make Facebook’s 2019 ban on Alex Jones more lenient, BuzzFeed reports. The ban was supposed to extend to posts supporting Jones, but Zuckerberg vetoed this part of it, sources said. Current and former employees said the company has been deliberately lenient with right-wing figures. Visit the Business section of Insider for more stories. Facebook’s banning of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was less strict than employees wanted it to be, according to a new report from BuzzFeed.Facebook announced in May 2019 that it was banning a group of right-wing conspiracy theorists, including Jones. Sources told BuzzFeed that Facebook’s strategic response team recommended not only banning Jones himself, but removing any content that praised or expressed support for his ideas.But once this recommendation was run up to Zuckerberg, he decided on a less comprehensive ban, effectively deviating from company policy, the sources said.”Zuckerberg basically took the decision that he did not want to use this policy against Jones because he did not personally think he was a hate figure,” a former Facebook policy employee told BuzzFeed. Jones has promoted a host of conspiracy theories,  » Read More