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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sat Jul 30, 2022, 08:50 PM Jul 2022

Infowars Whistleblower: Staff Laughed At Pleas To Stop Pushing Sandy Hook Lies

AUSTIN, Texas ― A former employee of Infowars and Alex Jones said he was laughed at after repeatedly warning staff to stop publishing falsehoods about the Sandy Hook school shooting that left 20 kids and six adults dead.

In a video deposition played for jurors Friday during Alex Jones’ defamation trial, former Infowars employee Rob Jacobson recalled the guilt he felt whenever the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting was part of the broadcast.

Jacobson told a jury he felt “complicit” even though he wasn’t directly involved in the Sandy Hook lies. He said he told writers and staff at the outlet that they were violating journalistic ethics.

“When [Sandy Hook] would come on the screen, I would make it my business to go in to the writers and explain to them as clearly as possible ... what those ethics are and why they are violating them and what the damage could possibly be,” Jacobson said.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/infowars-whistleblower-staff-laughed-pleas-170234225.html

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Infowars Whistleblower: Staff Laughed At Pleas To Stop Pushing Sandy Hook Lies (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2022 OP
if he was concerned with journalistic ethics, how the hell did he ever end up working there Takket Jul 2022 #1
Scummy guy who seems to have retained/grown The Unmitigated Gall Jul 2022 #2
Writers? This thing has writers? Liberal In Texas Jul 2022 #3

The Unmitigated Gall

(3,836 posts)
2. Scummy guy who seems to have retained/grown
Sat Jul 30, 2022, 09:41 PM
Jul 2022

A shred of conscience. Should have resigned immediately the first day he communicated his concerns and was laughed at.

And surrounded at his job by people with absolutely none.

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