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Roku is in hot water after initially defending its decision to offer users InfoWars, a channel hosted by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. But the service soon learned what other players in the industry—including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Spotify and Apple—learned months ago. After a swift backlash over giving Jones’ rhetoric a platform, the company announced Tuesday night that it would remove the far-right channel.
In a statement to Digiday, which first reported the news on Tuesday, Roku initially defended itself, claiming that “voices on all sides of an issue or cause are free to operate a channel” and that it was not being paid to promote or distribute InfoWars.
“We
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