APPLE SAYS it is monitoring Infowar app for content violations.
App Inc said on Wednesday that an app belonging to the popular conspiracy theorist Alex Jones remains in the company's mobile App Store because it has not been found to be in violation of any content policies.
The Infowar Official app has become the App Store's third most downloaded news app this week after Apple removed access on Sunday to some of Jones' podcasts from its digital store.
Apple had said the podcasts violated the company's rules against hate speech.
The company had not explained why the app remained available until issuing a statement on Wednesday.
''We strongly support all points of view being represented on the App store, as long as the apps respectful to users with different opinions, and follow our clear guidelines, ensuring, the App Store is a safe marketplace for all,'' Apple told Reuters in a statement.
Jones podcasts differed from the Infowar app in a key way. The podcasts app allowed access to an extensive list of previous episodes, subjecting all those past episodes to Apple's content rules.
The Infowars app contains only rebroadcasts of the current day's episodes, subjecting a much smaller set of content to the rules. Apple said it regular monitors all apps for content violations.
''We continue to monitor apps for violations of our guidelines and if we find content that violates our guidelines and is harmful to users we will remove those apps from the store as we have done previously,'' Apple said.
Twitter has drawn public outcry for not removing Jones' account. The company is responding by expediting a review of its content policies, according to an internal email that Chief Executive Jack Dorsey shared on Twitter on Wednesday.
The message noted that Twitter would have taken action against Jones had he posted the same content on its service as he had on Facebook and YouTube. [Agencies].
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