Jfk jr. is. it is an actually belief. you can laugh about it if you want, butyo like jason was talkg about, he bet this woman a hundred dollars and she kind of had a smile on her face but then she took the bet. she honestly believed this was going tost happen. she stays up till 3:00, 4:00 a.m. every night, check for screen shots that get gleeted, so she can share them with her friends. it s a world where people feel that they are part of some sort of club that is fighting for good. it s a powerful feeling to be part of something and we can laugh at it and i think we should. it s hilarious. but at the end of the day they re taking it very seriously. i was laughing at your use of the term qdrops. yeah. i ask you guys to sit tight. a lot more to discuss.
Law. the people behind qdrops tweeted that they are working with apple to get it back in the app store. joining us now to take a closer look at this is a guy who s been working on this, benec collins, who helped break this exclusive story. we know there s garbage on the internet. right. we d like to think the people from whom we buy the apps, and they all take a view it s all first amendment and free speech and all that, but they do have some guidelines. and apple has explicitly said in the past, listen, this is like minding a store that we have. we have this app store and the stuff on it is it s our responsibility to see what s on there. if people are saying hillary clinton by the way, this is way off the map stuff. they think that they re using baby blood to mix it into cement. like totally crazy stuff. yeah. so apple was taking a cut of this. 15% to 30% cuts of this app. so they took it down immediately. google still hasn t done so. all of this stuff lingers on faceboo
Murderous child sex ring. president trump has secretly created a police force to arrest them and force them to wear ankle bracelets. there are people who believe this stuff. it sounds wild but has thousands of followers who have spread the theory to the rest of the world using facebook, twitter, youtube and other social media sites and message boards. so what does all of this have to do with apple and google? well, the companies made money when somebody bought the qdrops app in the app stores. it s still for sale in the google play store and google has not responded to an nbc news request for comment. apple did remove the app after an inquiry from nbc news. the company said in a statement the app store has always supported all points of view being represented, as long as the apps are respectful to users with differing opinions and the quality of the experience is great. we re going to take apple also said we ll take swift action to remove any app that violates our guidelines or our
When you go out and talk to people like bob, it s still very real and the consequences could be quite significant as soon as this fall. it s not theoretical to bob an farmers like him. thanks, vaughn, for the great reporting you re doing. apple and google have vowed to fight fake news and conspiracy theories, but they re also profiting from it. the tech giant sold an app called qdrops. this is important. qdrops is linked to the conspiracy theory chain q-anon which is an offshoot of the pizzagate which claimed hillary clinton ran a child sex trafficking ring out of the basement of a d.c. pizza shop that didn t even have a basement. the app alerts fans and followers when there are new posts. this is the last post from july 4th. many of the 1,700 posts which fans call bread crumbs are vague, making it tough to nail down an exact story line. but the central theme is hillary clinton and many of the world s other politicians and celebrities are members of a