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Jones is a radio host who has claimed that the government perpetrated the 9/11 attacks and the tragedies at Columbine, Oklahoma City, Sandy Hook, and the Boston Marathon. Jones has also repeatedly accused the Clintons of murder. He has been elevated from the fringes to the mainstream by President-elect Donald Trump, who appeared on his show and praised his amazing reputation. Trump adviser Roger Stone is also a regular Jones guest and contributor.
Jones and his Infowars website have promoted the false conspiracy theory dubbed "pizzagate," which alleges that top Clinton associates such as campaign manager John Podesta are trafficking children through the Comet Ping Pong restaurant.
The false claims took a dangerous turn when Edgar Maddison Welch fired an assault rifle inside the pizzeria because he was trying to self-investigate the conspiracy theory. FBI special agent Justin Holgate stated in a criminal complaint that Welch said he sent a video on the night of December 1 with the message Watch PIZZAGATE: The Bigger Picture on YouTube to a friend before the shooting:
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/12/13/alex-jones-scrubs-pizzagate-content-complaint-reveals-new-tie-connecting-shooter-jones/214809
riversedge
(69,721 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,110 posts)Afromania
(2,767 posts)the minds of the folks that read that drivel not so much. He knows his base well and as long as they don't see it anymore it never happened.
Vinca
(50,170 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,110 posts)get the red out
(13,459 posts)It is about time that this fear-monger, lying asshole got noticed by someone other than his followers. His crap is not harmless, I am very pro-first amendment, but it is nice that this guy is finally being called on his shit! The first amendment works both ways, and what he tells people really needs to be discredited in a big way.
Gothmog
(143,999 posts)Initech
(99,914 posts)ProfessorGAC
(64,421 posts). . .should one occur, attempting to eliminate discovery items is worse than the lawsuit! That's what our lawyers told us in a IP suit back 20 years ago. They said just make everything available. Trying to hide or delete stuff is way more trouble than the suit itself.
Javaman
(62,439 posts)the orange jerk seems to have many of those.
Staph
(6,245 posts)I had an illuminating experience with my sister recently, when she needed to get access to an education website that was down (or deleted - at the time we were not sure). She's a librarian and pretty tech-savvy, but she'd never heard of the Wayback Machine. And being the good liberal like most of the family, she highly approved of the idea of a full archive in Canada.
I suspect that Alex Jones has no idea that all of his content is readily accessible, forever. Have a heaping cup o' karma, baby!
And now I wonder, has the Internet Archive ever been used in a court case?