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# InfoWars Blacklisted By Major Advertisers After CNN's Guerrilla Activism

CNN has taken it upon themselves to contact companies whose advertisements have been played on the InfoWars-linked Alex Jones Channel on YouTube, resulting in a flood of major brands blacklisting the channels for future ad spending.

> 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.

The various brands purchased ad campaigns from marketing agencies or directly through YouTube parent company Google - which direct advertisements at specific demographics. Companies often don't know where their ads are displayed, however they can use exclusion filters to black list channels or content they don't wish to advertise with.

Scores of conservative and "conspiracy" YouTube channels have been hit with strikes and bans over the last several weeks following the Parkland Florida School Shooting. In particular, videos suggesting that survivor David Hogg was being coached or is a paid crisis actor have been struck from the platform and measures taken against uploaders.

YouTube admitted they had been overly aggressive in their recent enforcement, blaming "newer members" of its 10,000 large team of moderators.

"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."

The Alex Jones Channel received two "strikes" from YouTube during the controversy, however the second strike was removed hours later with no explanation. Similarly, InfoWars fixture Dr. Jerome Corsi's YouTube channel was permanently banned on Thursday - only to be restored hours later with a similar lack of explanation.

And while YouTube may have overstepped its bounds, CNN has taken the attack straight to the bottom line by encouraging advertisers to blacklist Alex Jones related content.

Starving Jones To Death

This isn't the first time advertisers have blacklisted InfoWars. Last February, the InfoWars website was dropped by San Francisco advertising agency AdRoll the day after Jones did an interview with the (failing) New York Times - costing Jones an estimated $5 million per year of income.

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.

Still, one can't help but wonder if the political ideology of the San Francisco-based ad agency had something to do with the decision: several high level AdRoll employees have donated money to democratic causes over the past several elections. CEO Aaron Bell is also a huge fan of Bill Gates - having grown up in Washington and worked at Microsoft where he stalked the Billionaire at their annual employee barbecue.

Interestingly, AdRoll's head of retargeting, Peter Clark, contributed to the "Democratic Hope Fund" in 2015.

InfoWars isn't the first conservative outlet to suffer from politically motivated advertising hits. In November 2016, Breitbart.com was dropped by AppNexus - one of the largest digital ad agencies in the world.

“We did a human audit of Breitbart and determined there were enough articles and headlines that cross that line, using either coded or overt language,” said Josh Zietz of AppNexus. “This blacklist was solely about hate speech violation."

In any case, with InfoWars facing attacks on all fronts, it looks like they'll be down to water filters and health supplements going forward as liberal activists such as CNN target their primary source of income.

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ACP Sun, 03/04/2018 - 10:31 Permalink

ALEX JONES FOR PRESS SECRETARY!

NO GAY FROGS!

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FreeShitter ACP Sun, 03/04/2018 - 10:32 Permalink

Jonestein pissed off someone bigly.

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kahplunk FreeShitter Sun, 03/04/2018 - 10:34 Permalink

All those photo the men looking like cock suckers

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Arnold kahplunk Sun, 03/04/2018 - 10:36 Permalink

Only a step up of Alinsky marginalization.
It's an election year.
The Proggies fucked them selves last time, and likely will implode this time as well.

"Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_for_Radicals

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cheka Arnold Sun, 03/04/2018 - 10:37 Permalink

broward sheriff stand down order confirmed

[url]http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article20301528…]

The Broward Sheriff’s Office captain who initially took charge of the chaotic scene at a Parkland high school where 17 people were killed told deputies to form a perimeter around the deadly scene — which they did instead of going in to confront the shooter, according to a partial BSO dispatch log obtained by the Miami Herald.

Capt. Jan Jordan, commander of BSO’s Parkland district, gave the order, the log shows, identifying her by her police call sign.

Broward Sheriff Scott Israel has said BSO training and nationwide active-shooter procedure call for armed law enforcement officers to confront shooters immediately rather than secure a scene.

The document raises fresh questions about the department’s handling of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14.

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Buckaroo Banzai cheka Sun, 03/04/2018 - 10:44 Permalink

The kikes are going hard at this humble water filter salesman. His solution will be simple: just sell more bottles of Super Male Vitality!

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TBT or not TBT Buckaroo Banzai Sun, 03/04/2018 - 10:49 Permalink

The kids were being coached by Debbie Wasserman Schultz by day two, and they're funded by several anti-gun groups including Bloomberg's thing . Not to mention the agitprop the prog media has showered on them . Kids, your name is Astroturf Exploited .

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TBT or not TBT TBT or not TBT Sun, 03/04/2018 - 10:53 Permalink

DWS, recently chair of the DNC, knows media campaigns and messaging for political ends . Hopefully she and her ilk overplay their hands as grotesquely as they did in the Bernie vs Clinton campaign and following Clinton vs America campaign The Dems hate you.

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jbvtme TBT or not TBT Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:09 Permalink

alex jones. bill hicks. what's the diff? dogs and ponies either way.

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MagicHandPuppet jbvtme Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:17 Permalink

I don't watch Alex Jones (but I do like Paul Joseph Watson a lot).

Nevertheless, I do love it when the cockroaches willingly run into the spotlight while attempting to contaminate the world. A special thanks goes out to Nike, Moen, Expedia, Acer, ClassPass, Honey, Alibaba and OneFamily for outing yourselves as piece of shit virtue signaling scum who will never see another penny from me or my family. Keep on sucking.

Who's next?

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in4mayshun MagicHandPuppet Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:29 Permalink

Seems like there’s enough orgs out there to co-op their own version of YouTube. The only way to truly beat a globalist organization is to starve them of their life blood-money.

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MK ULTRA Alpha TBT or not TBT Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:16 Permalink

It's strange, Jones is pro-Zionist. married two Jewish women in a row and what is happening the Jewish left wing are leading the take down of conservative sites. It's similar to the Jewish led boycott of Germany in the 1930's.

Across the entire web, Facebook is installing a Chinese censorship model to impress the Chinese. Facebook was kicked out of China. Zuckerberg has made trip after trip to impress Xi. Zuckerberg carried Xi's book around quoting it to Americans in speeches etc. just like Mao's Little Red Book.

I boycott Facebook and anyone who uses Facebook. I don't believe the metrics Facebook uses for number of users and Facebook has been caught falsifying advertisement data.

We are not being protected from 1st Amendment violations from these firms. Both Facebook and Google are in violation of the Bill of Rights to conform to a global Chinese model of censorship for access to the Chinese market.

Facebook has been manipulating elections in many countries. The report about Facebook manipulation of foreign elections has been confirmed by Facebook as a consultant fee. Manipulation of foreign elections by US corporations is against US law. Facebook is a political hit man for hire. It's just like CNN being paid a bribe from countries who want favorable coverage.

It's unfortunate the Obama administration wasn't pro-civil liberties and Trump administration is pro-business. But something has to be done, I suggest Facebook, Google and Microsoft be broken up to allow competition in this space.

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mc888 TBT or not TBT Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:19 Permalink

Victim-as-product business model

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PT cheka Sun, 03/04/2018 - 10:50 Permalink

From the link http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article20301528…

Last video, demolish the existing building and build another one on a different part of campus.
Where has that happened before?
Is this something Wolfgang Halbig might like to look at or is he still busy?

I don't know, I live on the other side of the world, it's just that, ummmm, ummmm, yeah ...

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Mr. Universe PT Sun, 03/04/2018 - 10:57 Permalink

Natural News has been taken down from YouTube as well. Mike Adams, the Health Ranger was all over the Las Vegas mess with an acoustic analysis proving more than one shooter. Can't have people who question the official story getting people all riled up can we?

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rejected cheka Sun, 03/04/2018 - 10:53 Permalink

404 Page Not Found..... lol.

Gotta love the land of the Free.

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Friedrich not Salma rejected Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:15 Permalink

Gotta cut off last few chacters in that URL to make it work.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article20301528…

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PT rejected Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:15 Permalink

Yeah, I got the 404 first time around. Try the link in my comment. If that does not work then just paste the original link into your favourite search engine and try finding it that way.

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Goldennutz cheka Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:22 Permalink

Capt. Jan Jordan, commander of BSO’s Parkland district..

what a pussy...

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Pandelis kahplunk Sun, 03/04/2018 - 10:37 Permalink

the mormon church as an advertiser? why would they advertise at this show ? i am confused. yeah well this is amurika.

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Buckaroo Banzai Pandelis Sun, 03/04/2018 - 10:48 Permalink

You don't understand how internet advertising works. YouTube places ads according to all kinds of algorithms. The Mormons are just saying, exclude us from Infowars.

Most likely there are plenty of advertisers who don't give a shit one way or the other about InfoWars, and who will be happy to let Youtube serve up their ads on the Infowars channel. Which means CNN is just grandstanding here, while giving shitlib corporations like Nike (which is evil incarnate) the chance to put on their cringeworthy virtue-signaling act.

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I hate cunton Buckaroo Banzai Sun, 03/04/2018 - 10:55 Permalink

Good to know Buckaroo.

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Normalcy Bias kahplunk Sun, 03/04/2018 - 10:50 Permalink

That hairstyle on Bell is hilarious!

It looks like he's wearing extensions from a poodle.

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Consuelo Normalcy Bias Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:28 Permalink

Bell is look quite Alinksy...

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HRClinton FreeShitter Sun, 03/04/2018 - 10:55 Permalink

Ever since Alex's (((wife))) left and divorced him and took 1/2 his money, he no longer has Protection by the (((tribe))).

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FreeShitter HRClinton Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:06 Permalink

Yep.

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macholatte ACP Sun, 03/04/2018 - 10:32 Permalink

Silence the opposition. The prevailing mental state shall be controlled insanity.
– Barack Soros

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Leveraged Algorithm macholatte Sun, 03/04/2018 - 10:46 Permalink

What really needs to happen is to take down all the FCC rules on broadcasting where we can pick and choose content we pay. That would result in direct funding to what free people want to see and no funding for the garbage we do not - like the black entertainment channel and Ted Turner among many... and the fuckers at CNN.

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cheka ACP Sun, 03/04/2018 - 10:32 Permalink

broward sheriff stand down order confirmed

[url]http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article20301528…]

The Broward Sheriff’s Office captain who initially took charge of the chaotic scene at a Parkland high school where 17 people were killed told deputies to form a perimeter around the deadly scene — which they did instead of going in to confront the shooter, according to a partial BSO dispatch log obtained by the Miami Herald.

Capt. Jan Jordan, commander of BSO’s Parkland district, gave the order, the log shows, identifying her by her police call sign.

Broward Sheriff Scott Israel has said BSO training and nationwide active-shooter procedure call for armed law enforcement officers to confront shooters immediately rather than secure a scene.

The document raises fresh questions about the department’s handling of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14.

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strannick cheka Sun, 03/04/2018 - 10:40 Permalink

Sociopathic Elites (redundant?) foster and revel in these shootings. They don't give a shit about murdered kids and as Rahm Emmanuel said " don't let a good crises go to waste". If we knew the extent to which these shooters were prompted by handlers we'd vomit on our keyboards

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TBT or not TBT strannick Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:01 Permalink

Making the atrocity worse through passivity, a prog mind would figure, might create enough tragedy to bring on the government expanding policy changes they yearn for, everywhere and always . Government is their faith . Ruined families and full morgues from Oakland to Baltimore to sunny Parkland are th eggs that have to be broken to get people behind the utopian omelette .

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Dapper Dan TBT or not TBT Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:12 Permalink

Palantir, the company that knows too much

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/palantir-company-article-1.3851809

Am I my cousin’s keeper?

That’s the question to ask in the story, still emerging, of Peter Thiel’s Palantir. The giant private surveillance company, created by a tech billionaire obsessed with making himself immortal and destroying his “enemies” in the press, is contracting with American police forces to secretly provide them with systems — designed for our wars of foreign occupation — that supposedly find criminals before they commit crimes, partly by mapping out family and social networks.

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JLee2027 ACP Sun, 03/04/2018 - 10:45 Permalink

No blacks or women on the AdRoll executive team? Looks like an all whitey KKK meeting.

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Buckaroo Banzai JLee2027 Sun, 03/04/2018 - 10:50 Permalink

"No blacks or women on the AdRoll executive team? Looks like an all whitey KKK meeting."

Flush out your headgear. They are either Jews or shabbos goys. Aaron Bell is an obvious Jew, Bell is a Jewish surname and the hooknose is a dead giveaway. And AdRoll is most likely owned by Jews.

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takeaction ACP Sun, 03/04/2018 - 10:47 Permalink

THIS IS WRONG ON SO MANY LEVELS...

I don't give a fuck if you love Alex or Hate him....if they don't like what you say they shut you down.

REALLY?

I hope this makes Alex Jones into a monster....

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MasterControl ACP Sun, 03/04/2018 - 10:59 Permalink

Where does CNN get the money to pay institutions to carry their channel exclusively?

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Quantify ACP Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:22 Permalink

I would pay to see Alex in front of the WH Press Corps...lol.

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Arnold Sun, 03/04/2018 - 10:31 Permalink

Interestin....

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Bondosaurus Rex Sun, 03/04/2018 - 10:32 Permalink

Civil war is coming. When a man can not feed their family you have left them with no option.

Just like the Spanish Civil War.

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FreeShitter Bondosaurus Rex Sun, 03/04/2018 - 10:33 Permalink

Before or after 4% on the 10 year?

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Urban Roman FreeShitter Sun, 03/04/2018 - 10:42 Permalink

'bout the same time, near as I can guess. Either one will cause the other.

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Meat Hammer Sun, 03/04/2018 - 10:32 Permalink

They will always tell you who they fear. -Rush Limbaugh

(neocon ball-licker, but he’s right about this)

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Mr. Universe Meat Hammer Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:00 Permalink

Damn my eyes, must get image out of my head...

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Victor999 Sun, 03/04/2018 - 10:33 Permalink

Youtube and CNN are going down a very dangerous path - and taking us with them. This has to be stopped - whether you like Alex Jones or not, free speech is at high risk now - not only from government, but from corporate interests.

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PT Victor999 Sun, 03/04/2018 - 10:39 Permalink

Why can't we just write our own search engines? I mean, seriously, are Google's algorithms REALLY that special? How many times I have typed stuff in and very quickly got to WTF territory, as in "WTF??? How TF do those links bare any correlation to the words I typed in???" Sometimes I can provide a direct quote and yet find no links to those quotes in the first few pages, but very quickly the links point to all sorts of bizarre, irrelevant shit.

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strannick Victor999 Sun, 03/04/2018 - 10:41 Permalink

They're not going down the path..they are the ones asphalting it.

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LeadPipeDreams Sun, 03/04/2018 - 10:34 Permalink

Bill Hicks is rolling in his grave.

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Eyes Opened LeadPipeDreams Sun, 03/04/2018 - 10:56 Permalink

"Bill Hicks is rolling in his grave."

As is Woody Guthrie... 😔

This Land Is Your Land....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wxiMrvDbq3s

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MasterControl LeadPipeDreams Sun, 03/04/2018 - 10:58 Permalink

Hicks would be praising antifa.

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PT Sun, 03/04/2018 - 10:35 Permalink

So does this mean you WILL have to buy his vitamin pills* and MREs* in order to support him?

* I haven't watched him for a while so I can't quite remember what he sells.

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