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Profit, not free speech, governs media companies' decisions on controversy

  • Written by Amanda Lotz, Fellow, Peabody Media Center; Professor of Media Studies, University of Michigan
Profit, not free speech, governs media companies' decisions on controversyWhat causes a media business to bar the door?yanin kongurai/Shutterstock.com

For decades, U.S. media companies have limited the content they’ve offered based on what’s good for business. The decisions by Apple, Spotify, Facebook and YouTube to remove content from commentator Alex Jones and his InfoWars platform follow this same pattern.

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