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The Associated Press reports: As Alex Jones continues telling his Infowars audience about his money problems and pleads for them to buy his products, his own documents show life is not all that bad — his net worth is around $14 million and his personal spending topped $93,000 in July alone, including thousands of dollars on meals and entertainment. The …

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 …

“God has a way of making sure everyone knows who God is. I’ll say that about that. But let’s talk about what is happening to these people. So, there’s 73-75,000 in the Nevada desert right now at this Burning Man. “They’re locked in. They’re not allowed to leave and they’re basically probably being brainwashed that climate change is the cause …

CNN reports: When conspiracy theorist Alex Jones marched his way to the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, riling up his legion of supporters, an unassuming middle-aged man in a red “Trump 2020” hat conspicuously tagged along. Videos and photographs reviewed by CNN show the man dutifully recording Jones with his phone as the bombastic media personality ascended to the …

“They’ve busted antifa and leftists all over the world. Big fires in France right now, big fires in Germany. When the winds get high and it’s dry, out come the Extinction Rebellion leftists. And they don’t like populists, they don’t like people having houses, they don’t like people having cars. And then obviously, the globalists. “This came out, a lot …

“People woke up, man. They know now it’s poison. They know it’s a fraud, and more are waking up all the time. So we’re saving lives together! And I hope LeBron James does the right thing now. Elon Musk came out and said he thinks it’s the shot. He thinks LeBron James is from the shot. ‘Elon Musk suggests 18-year-old …

“I think a lot of the problems we see in kids, particularly boys, it’s probably underappreciated on that how much of that is coming from chemical exposures, including a lot of the sexual dysphoria that we’re seeing. I mean, they’re swimming through a soup of toxic chemicals today, and many of those are endocrine disruptors. There’s atrazine throughout our water …

The Daily Beast reports: Far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones fumed on his Thursday program over Canadian prankster Chris James duping him into believing that he was speaking with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson. “Hey, let me tell the little prankster Prank Stallone something,” Jones said, responding to the Wednesday prank call from James, which has yet to be published. …

The Associated Press reports: Alex Jones’ media company has proposed a plan in its bankruptcy case to pay the conspiracy theorist $520,000 a year while leaving $7 million to $10 million annually to pay off creditors, including relatives of Sandy Hook shooting victims. Free Speech Systems, owned solely by Jones, filed a proposed reorganization plan Tuesday in its Chapter 11 …

The Huffington Post reports: In early March 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic began its onslaught across the country, Fox News host Tucker Carlson drove to then-President Donald Trump’s Florida resort to warn him to take the virus seriously. “People you know will get sick,” Carlson said on his show later that night after visiting Trump at Mar-a-Lago. “Some may die. …

Media Matters has the transcript: Bolsonaro won in every state but the biggest city in Brazil, the communists control. Polls showed he was 50/50 there, but he lost by almost 70%. Just like they do in Maricopa County and other key areas like Atlanta and Georgia, where they steal their elections. And you have the State Department, the deep state …

NBC Connecticut reports: A judge has suspended the law license of Norm Pattis, Alex Jones’ attorney, for six months after he allegedly released unauthorized Sandy Hook files. The files released include the personal medical records of several Sandy Hook families during the Connecticut defamation case. “Simply put, given his experience, there is no acceptable excuse for his misconduct,” Judge Barbara …

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: Bankruptcy can be used to wipe out debts, but not if they result from “willful or malicious injury” caused by the debtor. Jones’s lies appear to meet that standard, said Susan Block-Lieb, a professor of bankruptcy law at Fordham University School of Law. “Defamation is pretty clearly an intentional tort – it is especially clear in Alex Jones’s …

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 …

Media Matters reports: In the midst of an unhinged and antisemitic rant by Ye — the rapper formerly known as Kanye West — the musician handed his Twitter account with over 32 million followers to white nationalist Nick Fuentes, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, and “Stop the Steal” organizer Ali Alexander; all of whom are banned on the platform. Ye now …

Salon reports: Kanye West praised Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler during an appearance on Alex Jones’ InfoWars conspiracy broadcast. The rapper, who now goes by Ye, appeared on the right-wing conspiracy broadcast alongside white nationalist Nick Fuentes, a week after the pair met with former president Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort. “That’s right, you’re not Hitler, you’re not a Nazi, …

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 Daily Beast reports: Elon Musk received blowback from right-wing activists on Friday after responding “no” to a user urging the new Twitter chief to reinstate conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Almost immediately, right-wingers and members of the far-right called out Musk—who fashions himself a free-speech warrior. “Elon’s free speech claim quickly shown to be bullshit lol,” right-wing YouTuber Tim Pool …

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 …