YouTube's Bean Project Could Have Generated Alex Jones

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Alex Jones, of Infowars, is holding a press conference outside a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing in the Dirksen Building. Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook, and Jack Dorsey, chief executive of Twitter, testified on Sept. 5 about the influence of foreign operations on social media. 2018.

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Alex Jones, of Infowars, is holding a press conference outside a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing in the Dirksen Building. Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook, and Jack Dorsey, chief executive of Twitter, testified on Sept. 5 about the influence of foreign operations on social media. 2018.

While the spread of misinformation online was causing public anxiety after the election of Donald Trump, YouTube was working on a proposal that could have made conspiracy theorist Alex Jones one of his creators the highest paid, according to Bloomberg.

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