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Ex-Alex Jones employee reflects on job at Infowars: ‘It was nonsense. It was lies’
(www.theguardian.com)
Vampire sucking sound everytime he attaches to a new grift.
this post was submitted on 01 Apr 2026
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I used to like watching Alex Jones when I was stoned, and imagine living in a world where he's not just spouting wild shit and is actually the only one brave enough to tell us the truth. Felt like being in a Deus Ex story or something.
I feel awful for anyone who truly did believe him though.
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. He said Jones himself would boast to his employees: “You cannot exist in the world outside … here because you are connected to me.”
Justifiably so, willingness to tell what you know as outright bigoted lies for a paycheck makes you categorically untrustworthy. So he stayed on, knowingly causing more harm because we all need to pay rent.
Remember y'all, capitalism breeds innovation. It would be SO much worse if his material conditions such as food and house were guaranteed. No lazy free loaders here, just innovators innovating propaganda.
How is Jones still around?
Are the American courts so weak that they can't enforce the multiple judgments against him?
They were civil cases and Infowars is likely to shut down in the next couple weeks so it can be liquidated to pay debts resulting from his lost cases and appeals.
But, he’s planning to simply start up a new venture. Sandy Hook families are expected to try to shut that down as well.
So they get to spend their lives playing judicial whack-a-mole?
Original question stands.
So long as there is no criminal prosecution and threat of material jail time against him, Jones is free to keep hiding the fiscal sausage by transferring ownership and shuffling around money between accounts in other people's names. I'm sure this is an expensive and obnoxious process on Alex's end. But it's a small price to pay to shield hundreds of millions of dollars from any kind of court judgement.
Add in that Jones has plenty of friends in the Texas state house and the Austin PD. So he can very easily skirt processors, ignore out-of-state court orders, and glad hand sheriff's deputies who would otherwise pursue collections against him, simply because he's got popular clout in his big reactionary backwater.
At some point, the problem isn't with the courts but the police. Judges and juries don't do the collections themselves.
The answer is yes they are that weak, but only if you got money.
This mother fucker has been manipulating and taking advantage of mentally ill people for years.
I'm curious what about this is "mildly" infuriating to OP?
Right? For me it's rage inducing. This fucking guy sold his soul for a paycheck while helping brainwash people and putting the country in its current state. Fuck that guy
What an asshole.
I want to give him credit for admitting it was just racism in 2017 and going his separate way while many still voted for this type of shit 7 years later.. but it's hard to say it wasn't his work that helped fuel the fires of that racism across the nation.
It's one thing to be racist individually - it's another to be used as a megaphone for said racism. His actions have made this world worse unfortunately.