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Alex Jones wants a redo. According to the Associated Press, the far-right media figure has asked the court to scrap the nearly $1 billion verdict in his Sandy Hook defamation lawsuit. The suit—brought forth by eight families of Sandy Hook victims—alleges Jones had used his platform to propagate baseless conspiracy theories about the 2012 school shooting, […]
Kyrie Irving’s recent endorsement of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones doesn’t sit well with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Last month, the Brooklyn Nets point guard took to his Instagram Story to share a 2002 video in which Jones rants about secret societies and government overlords. “Never Forget – Alex Jones Tried To Warn Us,” Irving captioned the clip. In his […]
Alex Jones has been ordered to pay $4.1 million to the parents of Jesse Lewis, a 6-year-old boy who was among those killed in the Sandy Hook school shooting. According to CNN, Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis filed a defamation lawsuit against Jones in 2018, after he spent years making baseless claims about the massacre. The tragedy […]
Legal issues continue to mount in the Alex Jones household. The Associated Press reports Erika Wulff Jones—the wife of right-wing provocateur—was arrested Friday night in Austin for domestic violence. The 43-year-old woman was booked into Travis County Jail at around 8:45 p.m. local time and hit with two misdemeanor charges: assault causing bodily injury to a family member as well as resisting arrest, search […]
Far-right radio personality Alex Jones was not pleased when Joe Budden called him a “KKK guy,” going on an angry rant on InfoWars and telling the rapper to “burn in hell,” before eventually taking that statement back. The back-and-forth first kicked off when Budden noted that comedian Andrew Schultz interviewed Jones—who he called “KKK guy”—and Jones must’ve caught wind of […]
John Oliver came through with a timely reminder to not listen to anything Joe Rogan says with Sunday’s episode of Last Week Tonight. The focus of Oliver’s latest extended explainer, fittingly, was the impact of vaccine hesitancy in the U.S. As Oliver detailed at the top of the episode, the surging numbers recently seen in […]
Joe Rogan has defended his decision to again give a platform to far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Jones, considered by the Southern Poverty Law Center an “extremist” who is “almost certainly the most prolific conspiracy theorist” in present-day America, was recently a guest on Rogan’s podcast. During the three-hour discussion, which also included conservative-leaning comedian Tim Dillon, Jones […]
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