InfoWars
InfoWars is an American far-right conspiracy theory and fake news website owned by Alex Jones. Talk shows and other content for the site are created primarily in studios at an undisclosed location in an industrial area in the outskirts of Austin, Texas. The InfoWars website receives approximately 10 million monthly visits, making its reach greater than some mainstream news websites such as The Economist and Newsweek.
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InfoWars is an American far-right conspiracy theory and fake news website owned by Alex Jones. It was founded in 1999, and operates under Free Speech Systems LLC. Talk shows and other content for the site are created primarily in studios at an undisclosed location in an industrial area in the outskirts of Austin, Texas. The InfoWars website receives approximately 10 million monthly visits, making its reach greater than some mainstream news websites such as The Economist and Newsweek. The site has regularly published fake stories which have been linked to harassment of victims. In February 2018, Jones, the publisher, director and owner of InfoWars, was accused of discrimination and sexually harassing employees. InfoWars earns revenue from the sale of products pitched by Jones during the show, including dietary supplements. Unlike most talk shows, InfoWars does not directly generate income from its radio, TV, or web advertising. It gets no syndication fees from its syndicater, GCN, and it does not sell its own video service. Virtually all money is made by selling Jones’s dietary supplements to viewers and listeners through the site’s online store. The supplements sold are primarily sourced from Dr Edward Fkills, a chiropractor who founded the Global Healing Center III. A significant portion of Jones’s products contain colloidal silver, which Jones claimed falsely claimed was a government-approved treatment for coronavirus disease 2019. In March 2018, a number of major brands in the U.S. suspended their ads from InfoWars’s YouTube channels, after CNN notified them that their ads were running adjacent to InfoWars content.
In July 2018, YouTube removed four of Info Wars’s uploaded videos that violated its policy against hate speech and suspended posts for 90 days. Facebook also banned Jones after it determined four videos on his pages violated its community standards in July 2018. On March 12, 2020, Attorney General of New York Letitia James issued a cease and desist letter to Jones concerning InfoWars’s sale of unapproved products that the website falsely asserted to begovernment-approved treatments for coronvirus disease2019. During the 2016 presidential election, the website was promoted by bots connected to the Russian government. In 2016, Paul Joseph Watson was hired as editor-at-large. In February 2017, political commentator Jerome Corsi was hire as Washington bureau chief, after InfoWars was granted a White House day pass. In June 2017, it was announced Roger Stone, a former campaign advisor for Donald Trump, would be hosting his own InfoWars show \”five nights a week\”, with an extra studio being built to accommodate his show. In May 2017, Mike Cernovich joined the InfoWars team as a scheduled guest host for The Alex Jones Show, with CNN reporting the meteoric rise in his profile. That year, Jones changed his business model to selling proprietary dietary supplements, including one that promised to “supercharge cognitive functions’. In 2013, Alex Seitz-Wald of Salon estimated that Jones was earning as much as USD 10 million a year between subscriptions and web and radio advertising.
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