Tag Archives: InfoWars

The Associated Press reports: A bank recently shut down the accounts of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ media company, citing unauthorized transactions — a move that caused panic at the business when its balances suddenly dropped from more than $2 million to zero, according to a lawyer for the company. The action last week by Axos Bank also exposed worry and …

NBC News reports: A host of the far-right media outlet InfoWars was sentenced Tuesday to 60 days in prison for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Owen Shroyer is one of only a handful of Jan. 6 participants charged with a crime despite neither entering the Capitol building nor being accused of committing violence or …

From the Justice Department filing issued yesterday: In the months prior to January 6, Shroyer spread election disinformation paired with violent rhetoric to hundreds of thousands, if not millions of viewers. He presciently warned in November 2020 that, if Joe Biden became president, “it’s not going to be a million peaceful marchers in D.C.” And on Jan. 6, 2021, Shroyer …

ABC News reports: Infowars host Owen Shroyer, who promoted baseless claims of 2020 election fraud on the far-right internet platform, pleaded guilty on Friday to joining the mob of Donald Trump supporters who rioted at the U.S. Capitol. Shroyer, who didn’t enter the Capitol but led rioters in chants near the top of the building’s steps, pleaded guilty to a …

Reuters reports: Alex Jones drew a $1.3 million salary from Free Speech Systems before its bankruptcy, and his attorney asked U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez to restore his salary to that level at a hearing Monday. Jones has been paid a reduced biweekly salary of $20,000 since his company filed for bankruptcy on July 29, just over a third of …

Reuters reports: Alex Jones filed for bankruptcy on Friday, less than two months after a jury ordered him and the parent of his Infowars website to pay nearly $1 billion in compensatory damages to relatives of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting. Jones filed for Chapter 11 protection from creditors with the U.S. bankruptcy court in Houston, a …

Reuters reports: Judge Maya Guerra Gamble rejected arguments by a lawyer for Jones and the parent company of his Infowars website that a Texas state law capping certain types of damages meant that the August verdict in favor of two parents of a child slain at Sandy Hook should be cut by more than $40 million. Texas law caps non-economic …

The Associated Press reports: Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his company were ordered Thursday to pay an extra $473 million to victims’ families and an FBI agent for calling the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax, adding to a nearly $1 billion jury verdict issued last month. Connecticut Judge Barabara Bellis imposed the punitive damages on the Infowars host …

Law & Crime reports: A 37-year-old defendant and video editor associated with Infowars, the website owned by right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, has admitted to illegally entering the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6. Samuel Christopher Montoya pleaded guilty on Monday to a single count of parading, demonstrating, and picketing in a Capitol building, a misdemeanor punishable by up to …

Media Matters has the transcript: These are going to be fights, but the way you do that, you get into the room and become a poll worker. This is 100% Owen, within our hands to grasp, this’ll never come again. We have a unique opportunity to have something like 1932 or right after the Civil War when you had these …

“They just sentenced Steve Bannon to found months in prison for contempt of the January 6 committee, a sham committee. Our only hope now is a miracle from God, I’m not going to lie to you. It’s our only hope. “We need a miracle from God or you can consider freedom in America dead and in that regard, the country’s …

“They want to shut us down, so I’m in Chapter 11, Subchapter V bankruptcy, which is not a liquidation. It’s reorganization. “So, as long as I want to work, basically, for free, I mean, instead of making $2 million a year and a half million dollars a year under it, I’m happy to do that. “InfoWars will continue on because …

Mediaite reports: InfoWars founder Alex Jones reacted on Wednesday to the $965 million verdict against him in the defamation suit. “Ain’t no money,” said Jones on his show as the verdict was being read. Jones claimed he is in bankruptcy, before asking viewers to donate to save his company. Jones grossly managed to make light of the devastating verdict with …

CNN reports: Plaintiffs in the trial included family members of eight school students and employees, in addition to one FBI agent who responded to the scene. Notably, Jones is not present in the courtroom today. Three cases were all condensed into the single trial. While the families did not seek a specific dollar figure in the trial, an attorney for …

Media Matters has a roundup of reactions: Infowars celebrated West multiple times on October 9. Host Owen Shroyer said, “I did not hear one thing Kanye West said that was bigoted.” He later added that the backlash to his antisemitic remarks “only proves what he’s talking about is real.” White nationalist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes posted on Telegram, “​​Kanye …

Mediaite reports: InfoWars founder Alex Jones skipped out on testifying at his own defamation trial on Wednesday, saying through his lawyer that he is “boycotting” the proceedings. Jones was expected to testify on Wednesday in a Connecticut defamation trial stemming from his comments suggesting the Sandy Hook school shooting never happened. Norm Pattis, Jones’ attorney, announced on Wednesday in court …

The Wrap reports: Alex Jones’ ex-wife Kelly said that the over-the-top, frequently flipped-out persona you’ve seen onscreen in Alex Jones is not an act, that he’s even worse in real life and “kind of crazy like Charles Manson.” “In person, as a human being, he is more unhinged and weirder and terrifying and threatening and looming and raging, I would …

The New York Times reports: Sandy Hook victims’ families asked a federal bankruptcy court on Thursday to order the Infowars conspiracy broadcaster Alex Jones to relinquish control over his company, saying he has “systematically transferred millions of dollars” to himself and his relatives while claiming to be broke. In a filing in the bankruptcy court in Houston, the families of …

Mediaite reports: Former Trump strategist Steve Bannon went fully conspiratorial with Alex Jones by claiming the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago was part of a “deep state” plot to have Donald Trump assassinated or found with incriminating evidence. “I do not think it’s beyond this administrative state and their deep state apparatus to actually try to work on the assassination of …

The Daily Beast reports: Far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones went on a rant about Sandy Hook family lawyers accidentally obtaining a copy of his phone from his own legal team, insisting they now have a “naked” photo of his wife and not much else. “It’s six months of my phone, late 2019, early 2020,” he said on his broadcast Saturday …