Ok well that explains it. Let me give you a TL;DR:
Alex Jones on his shitty conspiracy theory show InfoWars claimed repeatedly that the Sandy Hook massacre never took place and that the parents were "crisis actors" paid by the feds. He claimed the massacre was a "false flag operation by the globalists" or other such shit.
The fans of his show of course lapped this up without question and proceeded to harass the poor grieving parents of the dead children. They did this for years and made their lives a living hell even as they were trying to cope with the losses of their dead children.
Alex Jones continued to peddle this misinformation for years. Him and his shitty idiot mouth breathing viewers did everything they could to (further) ruin the lives of the grieving parents of dead children.
Eventually the parents lawyered up and sued him in multiple different states for defamation. The first case in Texas resulted in ~$45 million in damages, the next one in Connecticut resulted in nearly $1.5 billion in damages.
Literally the only thing that will shut him the fuck up is to bankrupt him into the ground and ensure that his stupid fucking InfoWars show never sees the light of day ever again, and that is exactly what they are doing.
Tbh InfoWars had some potential for radicalizing people when it was oriented against Bush II, the War on Terror, NSA spying, and so on. But that was long ago, before it made a very clear break towards being nothing but a reactionary pipeline.
They went from "they're turning this country into a police state" to "actually we need to police brown people more".
It seemed pretty standard libertarian-spectrum to me back then (well over a decade ago), but maybe that was me not noticing the overlapping white nationalists or maybe they were deliberately less forthcoming.
Do you have any idea who Alex Jones even is, or what these lawsuits are even about?
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Ok well that explains it. Let me give you a TL;DR:
Alex Jones on his shitty conspiracy theory show InfoWars claimed repeatedly that the Sandy Hook massacre never took place and that the parents were "crisis actors" paid by the feds. He claimed the massacre was a "false flag operation by the globalists" or other such shit.
The fans of his show of course lapped this up without question and proceeded to harass the poor grieving parents of the dead children. They did this for years and made their lives a living hell even as they were trying to cope with the losses of their dead children.
Alex Jones continued to peddle this misinformation for years. Him and his shitty idiot mouth breathing viewers did everything they could to (further) ruin the lives of the grieving parents of dead children.
Eventually the parents lawyered up and sued him in multiple different states for defamation. The first case in Texas resulted in ~$45 million in damages, the next one in Connecticut resulted in nearly $1.5 billion in damages.
Literally the only thing that will shut him the fuck up is to bankrupt him into the ground and ensure that his stupid fucking InfoWars show never sees the light of day ever again, and that is exactly what they are doing.
Tbh InfoWars had some potential for radicalizing people when it was oriented against Bush II, the War on Terror, NSA spying, and so on. But that was long ago, before it made a very clear break towards being nothing but a reactionary pipeline.
They went from "they're turning this country into a police state" to "actually we need to police brown people more".
:downbear: Infowars has never had potential, it's always been aligned with those Rockies white nationalist militia types.
It seemed pretty standard libertarian-spectrum to me back then (well over a decade ago), but maybe that was me not noticing the overlapping white nationalists or maybe they were deliberately less forthcoming.
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