Tag Archives: Alex Jones

Media Matters reports: Although YouTube has banned several channels associated with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Infowars site, the outlet still maintains a secondary channel and is using it to claim that the the mass shootings at two New Zealand mosques were “false flag” attacks. While YouTube banned Jones’ primary account in August 2018 and banned some related Infowars channels in …

Courthouse News reports: Escalating a feud among conspiracy theorists, Jerome Corsi and lawyer Larry Klayman brought a federal defamation complaint late Thursday against Alex Jones and his Infowars website. Though not himself indicted in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of the Russian meddling in the 2016 election, Corsi is named as “person 1” in the indictment of Roger Stone, making …

Rolling Stone reports: On Monday, pro-Trump conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi retracted a nearly year-old column published on the website Infowars that promoted the unfounded claim that murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich and his brother participated in the hack of the DNC and leaked documents to WikiLeaks. In addition to the retraction, Corsi apologized to the Rich family. Around midday Monday, …

Roger Stone and Jerome Corsi are already at each others’ throats and today Alex Jones melted down because Stone gave an “exclusive” to the homocon fake news site Gateway Pundit. An excerpt from his rant via Media Matters: “I like Roger as a friend, but he doles out exclusives – some to Fox News, some to Daily Caller – and …

The Verge reports: Facebook today removed 22 pages associated with far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, as part of a previously announced update in which the company is tightening rules for administrators whose pages have been previously banned. The pages, which were among 89 removed by the social network, were created before Jones was banned in August for violations related to …

Canada’s CBC News reports: Nearly six months after Toronto’s deadly Danforth Avenue shooting rampage, newly released details from court documents reveal a startling amount of ammunition was found in the apartment of gunman Faisal Hussain, along with a number of DVDs by the American conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. In the hours after the shooting, which claimed the lives of 18-year-old …

The Hill reports: Roku said late Tuesday that it deleted its channel for InfoWars just hours after the streaming platform said the show, which is hosted by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, didn’t violate its content policies. Roku initially defended its decision in a statement to The Hill on Tuesday, saying that it “allows our customers to choose from thousands of …

ABC News reports: Six families of victims killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School won a legal victory Friday in their fight against controversial radio and internet personality Alex Jones. A judge in Connecticut has granted the families’ discovery requests, allowing them access to, among other things, InfoWars’ internal marketing and financial documents. The judge has scheduled a hearing next week …

Unshocking. The Associated Press reports: Sharing false information on Facebook is old. People over 65 and ultra conservatives shared about seven times more fake information masquerading as news on the social media site than younger adults, moderates and super liberals during the 2016 election season, a new study finds. The first major study to look at who is sharing links …

“Here’s the big emergency. These are only probing attacks to set it up and to test the public, will they buy that Soros, and Hillary, and Bill, and Obama, and CNN are poor victims. This is introducing them as the targets so they can whine, and moan, and predict, if Trump doesn’t stop you’re going to get us all killed. …

Remember all the times Alex Jones screamed about gay wedding cakes? Apparently businesses don’t have the right to turn you away because of who you are if you happen to be Alex Jones. Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones hit PayPal with a federal lawsuit Monday, claiming bias against conservative views guided its decision to block his company from earning money …

The Verge reports: PayPal will no longer do business with Infowars, according to a post on the conspiracy theory site this morning. PayPal broke the news in an email to Infowars yesterday, saying the company had conducted a comprehensive review of the Infowars site and found that it “promoted hate and discriminatory intolerance against certain communities and religions,” a violation …

“I’m the globalist lethal injection and I’m ready to die. So let’s just be clear, I’ve already won. This is all gravy from this point on. So I’m already in the system, I’ve already won and they thought it was a joke and now they just took their death dose. Really, I’m going to kill the New World Order. They’re …

“Once you get communism there’s no more welfare, there’s no more nothing. You get to live in a hovel and you get to have no running water and you get to have secret police knock your teeth out if you don’t show up for the mandatory work brigades and then you work about 65 hours a week on average and …

“Alex Jones and Infowars, they’ve now been banned from Twitter as well. And by the way, what does that achieve? Getting somebody kicked off Twitter, what does that achieve for you, other than bragging points? You’re going to put it in your bio, ‘Got somebody kicked off Twitter’? I mean, what purpose does that achieve? Suppression is still suppression, and …

TechCrunch reports: Another domino has fallen in Alex Jones’ media empire. Apple confirmed with TechCrunch this that it’s pulled the controversial conspiracy theorist/provocateur from the App Store this week, banning the Infowars app over violations to its “objectionable content” rules. Slightly more specifically, the host was determined to have violated the TOS around “defamatory, discriminatory, or mean-spirited content, including references …

“I promise Jack Dorsey and everybody else this: We are going to be visiting with you. We are going to be coming to your events, your conferences, we’re going to have demonstrations. I’m going to be coming to committee hearings. And I’m going to be in the third dimension. We’re going to be exposing big tech and their interference in …

The Daily Beast reports: Twitter has banned Infowars and its founder, the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, following months of public pressure to do so. In a series of tweets on Thursday, the company said it had “permanently suspended” accounts associated with Jones and Infowars after numerous complaints that they violated its terms of service prohibiting repeated abusive behavior. A Twitter …

Newsweek reports: Alex Jones and Sen. Marco Rubio traded insults and nearly got into a physical altercation outside the Capitol Hill hearing on Silicon Valley’s role in aiding potential foreign influence over U.S. elections. Jones approached Rubio outside the hearing in which the Florida Republican senator had just ridiculed Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and other tech companies for working with …

“Yes, I’ll just tell you. We are a stay-behind network for America. It’s the big secret. That’s what we are. That’s why they’re after us. It’s true. The stay-behind network supports me. I am from a stay-behind network. Most of my family was in stay-behind networks. That’s why they hate me. I’m an American. I’m a stay-behind network for America. …