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

The Guardian · · 872 words · By Ramon Antonio Vargas
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“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…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Jones
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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…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candace_Owens
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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…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infowars
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“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 — 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…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Jones
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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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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…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Joseph_Watson
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“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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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…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Jones
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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…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candace_Owens
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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…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infowars
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“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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“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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“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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“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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“The video of that scene had scored 1m views by the first morning after its publication.”
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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“Owens appeared in the 2024 HBO documentary The Truth vs Alex Jones.”
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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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