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Apple boss Tim Cook said hate speech has 'no place' on the company's platforms as he accepted an award from a campaign group fighting anti-Semitism.

Speaking after being named the inaugural winner of the Anti-Defamation League's Courage Against Hate Award, Mr Cook said the technology company would not tolerate anyone trying to spread hate using the company's products.

Earlier this year Apple was one of several technology firms to remove conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his Infowars brand from their platforms.

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Apple boss Tim Cook (pictured) said hate speech has 'no place' on the company's platforms as he accepted an award from a campaign group fighting anti-Semitism

'We only have one message for those who seek to push hate, division, and violence: You have no place on our platform. You have no home here,' he said.

'From the earliest days of iTunes to Apple Music today, we have always prohibited music with a message of white supremacy. Why? Because it's the right thing to do.

'And, as we showed this year, we won't give a platform to violent conspiracy theorists on the App Store. Why? Because it's the right thing to do.' 

In September Apple banned the controversial Infowars app from its App Store following similar crackdowns on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Spotify.

The company said the app, which belongs to popular US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, violated its rules against 'objectionable content'.

The move made Apple the latest tech company or social media platform to take action against Jones, a right-wing talk-show host based in Austin, Texas.

The 44-year-old has suggested on his shows that the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax, among other sensational claims.

'At Apple, we are not afraid to say that our values drive our curation decisions. And why should we be? Doing what's right, creating experiences free from violence and hate, experiences that empower creativity and new ideas is what our customers want us to do,' Mr Cook said.

'Technology should be about human attention. It should be about optimism. And we believe the future should belong to those who use technology to build a better, more inclusive, and more hopeful world.'

In September Apple banned the controversial Infowars app from its App Store following similar crackdowns on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Spotify

The Apple chief executive was speaking at the ADL's Never Is Now Summit in New York, where he said the company's products are meant to improve lives.

'Apple is a technology company, but we never forget that the devices we make are imagined by human minds, built by human hands and are meant to improve human lives,' he said.

'I sometimes say that I worry less about computers that look like people, and more about people who think like computers, without values and compassion, without concern for consequences. And so we try to stay rooted and to keep our devices connected to the humanity that makes us us.'

Research suggests the average adult looks at their mobile every 12 minutes, and two in five are using one within five minutes of waking. 

Earlier this year the man who created the iPhone and Apple Watch revealed he believes the firm has a 'moral responsibility' to deal with the effects of its technology.

Apple's chief design officer Jonathan Ive told The FT the problem 'keeps me awake'.

'If you're creating something new, it is inevitable there will be consequences that were not foreseen — some that will be great, and then there are those that aren't as positive,' he told the newspaper.

THE TRILLION DOLLAR RISE OF APPLE 

The company's journey to the summit of the technology industry has been a rocky one, having seen Jobs (pictured right in 1976) leave the firm in the mid-1980s after his pet project, the first Macintosh computer, struggled and he attempted to oust then chief executive John Sculley. Wozniak is pictured left  

1976: Founders Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne created the company on April 1 1976 as they set about selling computer kits to hobbyists, each of which was built by Wozniak.

The first product was the Apple I. 

1977: Apple released the Apple II in June, which was the first PC made for the mass market. 

1981: Jobs became chairman.  

1984: The Macintosh was introduced during an ad break for the Super Bowl and later officially unveiled during a launch event. It was discontinued a year later and Jobs left the firm.

1987: Apple released the Macintosh II, the first colour Mac.

1997: Apple announces it will acquire NeXT software in a $400 million deal that involves Jobs returning to Apple as interim CEO. He officially took the role in 2000.  

2001: Apple introduced iTunes, OS X and the first-generation iPod.

The first iPod MP3 music player was released on October 23, 2001, at an event in Cupertino and was able to hold up to 1,000 songs.

Steve Jobs unveils Apple Computer Corporation's new Macintosh February 6, 1984 in California.

The then Chief Executive Officer of Apple, Steve Jobs, with the iPhone

2007: Apple unveils the iPhone. 

2010: The first iPad was unveiled.

2011: Jobs resigned in 2011 due to illness, handing the CEO title to Tim Cook. Job died in October from pancreatic cancer.

2014: Apple unveiled the Apple Watch. It also unveiled its first larger iPhones - the 6 and 6 Plus. 

2015: After purchasing Beats from Dr Dre, Apple launched Apple Music to compete with Spotify and other music streaming services. 

Apple CEO Steve Jobs speaks at an Apple event at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif.

2016: Apple returned to its roots and announced the 4-inch iPhone SE. Meanwhile, the firm is embroiled in a legal battle with the FBI, involving the agency demanding access to the locked phone used by Syed Farook, who died in a shootout after carrying out a deadly December attack in San Bernardino, California with his wife. The court order was dropped on March 28 after the FBI said a third party was able to unlock the device.  

2017: Apple introduces the iPhone X, which removes the home button to make way for a futuristic edge-to-edge screen design and a new FaceID system that uses advanced sensors and lasers to unlock phones with just the owner's face.    

2018: In a first for the company, Apple introduces new features in its latest operating system, iOS 12, that encourage users to manage and spend less time on their devices. The move was spawned by a strongly worded letter from shareholders that urged the firm to address the growing problem of smartphone addiction among kids and teenagers. 

 

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Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.

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