Ex-Alex Jones employee reflects on job at Infowars: ‘It was nonsense. It was lies’

The Guardian · 🇬🇧 public United Kingdom · Apr 01, 2026 · 872 words · By Ramon Antonio Vargas

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What to know about Ex-Alex Jones employee reflects on job at Infowars: ‘It was nonsense. It was lies’

A former video editor and field producer for Alex Jones’s Infowars has said his work for the notorious conspiracy theorist was “nonsense” and “lies”, but he kept at it for four years in his 20s because the far-right media company’s founder was a magnetic…

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What happened

Why it matters

Josh Owens made those revealing remarks in an NPR interview published on Tuesday promoting his new memoir about once having been an employee of Jones and Infowars – a conversation that also detailed the hand he said he had in fabricating a video of an…

Common ground

“In Jones’s world, it was all about making things look cinematic,” Owens, who left Infowars in 2017, said to NPR.

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No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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What concrete event or decision sits underneath the headline: Ex-Alex Jones employee reflects on job at Infowars: ‘It was nonsense. It was lies’?
What evidence would most clearly confirm or weaken the claim that Owens wrote The Madness of Believing: A Memoir from Inside Alex Jones’s Conspiracy Machine to explore various questions about his decision to work for Infowars?
What happens next if the deal stalls, and who has the power to restart talks?

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Claim 1: “Owens wrote The Madness of Believing: A Memoir from Inside Alex Jones’s Conspiracy Machine to explore various questions about his decision to work for Infowars.”

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Claim 2: “He said he had a hand in fabricating a video of an operative of the Islamic State (IS) terror group sneaking into the US from Mexico immediately after a beheading.”

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Claim 3: “Owens described how his job troubled him – yet he forged on because of the good pay and the fact that he perceived Jones to be an engaging force.”

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Claim 4: “In the film, he discusses how Jones was furious when an Infowars crew including Owens failed to find evidence of high radiation levels in California after the Fukushima nuclear accident.”

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Claim 5: “Owens was also deposed when the parents of the children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting successfully sued Jones for lying about how the mass murder was a hoax.”

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Claim 6: “In Jones’s world, it was all about making things look cinematic, likening the aesthetic to that seen in pieces by Vice News.”

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Claim 7: “We just happened to find a little stream that looked like it could be the Rio Grande, we said we were on the border.”

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Claim 8: “Owens told NPR that leaving Infowars wasn’t easy because his sense was that it was 'kind of black mark' on his résumé that he worked for Jones.”

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Claim 9: “The video of that scene had scored 1m views by the first morning after its publication.”

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Claim 10: “A former video editor and field producer for Alex Jones’s Infowars has said his work for the notorious conspiracy theorist was 'nonsense' and 'lies'.”

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Alexander Emerick Jones (born February 11, 1974) is an American far-right radio show host and prominent conspiracy theorist. He hosts The Alex Jones Show from Austin, Texas. The Alex Jones Show is the…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Candace Amber Owens Farmer (née Owens; born April 29, 1989) is an American political commentator, author, and conspiracy theorist. Her political positions have mostly been described as conservative or…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Infowars is an American far-right, conspiracy theory, and fake news website, which was created by Alex Jones. Founded in 1999, it operated under Free Speech Systems LLC. Talk shows and other content f…
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Claim 11: “He said his memoir doesn’t spend much time on Sandy Hook because he was distracted at the time with undertaking the business of actually joining Infowars.”

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Claim 12: “The Infowars team didn’t unearth any evidence to support the allegation – so it instead dressed a reporter up to resemble an IS operative, equipped him with a severed head prop and filmed him crossing a stream that the outlet falsely claimed was the Rio Grande on the border.”

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Claim 13: “He said Jones himself would boast to his employees: 'You cannot exist in the world outside … here because you are connected to me.'”

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Claim 14: “He ultimately changed his mind when he flew home from a different work trip next to a Muslim woman with a young girl.”

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Claim 15: “The US supreme court in October refused an appeal from Jones to overturn the $1.4bn defamation penalty awarded to the victims’ families.”

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Claim 16: “He kept at it for four years in his 20s because the far-right media company’s founder was a magnetic presence and it earned him good money.”

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Paul Joseph Watson (born 24 May 1982) is a British YouTuber, radio host and conspiracy theorist. In 2002, he began working at the American radio host Alex Jones's website InfoWars, where Watson promot…
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Claim 17: “Infowars deployed him to El Paso, Texas, after a conservative website alleged that IS had erected a training base in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua.”

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Claim 18: “Josh Owens made those revealing remarks in an NPR interview published on Tuesday promoting his new memoir about once having been an employee of Jones and Infowars.”

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Claim 19: “Owens told NPR that the Sandy Hook massacre took place between when he was offered the Infowars job and when he accepted the role.”

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Claim 20: “Owens appeared in the 2024 HBO documentary The Truth vs Alex Jones.”

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