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into one of Jones' business accounts, according to the U.S. House’s committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack.
“He is a salesman,” Williamson said. “And when you have millions of people watching, it only takes a small fraction of those individuals to turn it into something that really travels and disrupts people's lives.”, an organization that works to defend victims of tragedy from online harassment. While social media companies have changed policies and banned harmful content like Jones’ to address the spread of misinformation, the platforms’ profit model fundamentally relies on user engagement — and conspiracy theories, Moran said, are uniquely engaging.
“A lot of our conversation around the spread of misinformation has been on the platform side: What can and should Facebook and Instagram and Twitter be doing?” she said. “Actually, there's a lot more legal frameworks that we have in place that haven't necessarily been tested as avenues to remedy misinformation when it has actively harmed people in real life.”Jones speaks to a crowd gathered at the Texas Capitol in protest of economic shutdowns amid the coronavirus pandemic in April 2020.
Despite his diminished reach and prolonged legal battles, Jones' audience remains loyal, Williamson said.
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