Infowars

Ever since 2012, when Donald Trump wrote a string of tweets about how Robert Pattinson should dump her, Kristen Stewart has occupied a curious space in the conservative imagination. It was being reminded of those comments, as she revealed in Rolling Stone‘s March cover story, that inspired Stewart to come out as gay in a Saturday Night Live monologue five years later, shedding once and for all the waif-like image thrust upon her by the Twilight saga — the vampire romance movies that made her a force in Hollywood.…

Elon Musk has restored the X accounts of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his media site Infowars. The X accounts of Jones and Infowars were “permanently banned” from Twitter by the previous management in 2018 for posting abusive content and violating the platform’s rules. Musk ran a user poll on X on December 9 asking whether it was appropriate to bring Alex Jones back to the platform. Nearly 2 million people voted, with about 70% saying Jones’ account should be restored. Hours after the poll…

Half a decade after he was kicked off Twitter by the platform’s safety team, professional conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been welcomed back to the site, which is now called X. Zillow Says You’ll Buy Your Next House With… AI? | AI UnlockedYou can thank Elon Musk for that. This weekend, Musk passed around a poll on X to see if users wanted Jones to return to the platform. Nearly two million votes were cast—out of which some 70 percent voted for Jones to return to the site. Musk had previously stated that he would never…

Tech billionaire Elon Musk announced early Sunday that he would be reinstating far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ account on X, the platform previously known as Twitter. Musk, the owner of X, asked users in an informal poll on Saturday whether he should reinstate Jones’ account on the platform. The poll showed that 70 percent of respondents were in favor of the move, which comes about five years after he was permanently banned from the platform for abusive behavior. “The people have spoken and so it…

Billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk is considering reinstating right-wing personality Alex Jones on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “Reinstate Alex Jones on this platform? Vox Populi, Vox Dei,” Musk, who owns X, said in a post on the platform Saturday. Musk’s post includes a poll on the question. The entrepreneur’s question and poll post appears to be a reversal of his previous words on the reinstatement of Jones to the platform. Last year, Musk responded mockingly to a user of the…

Alex Jones—the bloated, misanthropic mannequin that spews hate and conspiracies with robotic efficiency—found himself at the mercy of a prank call earlier this week by a man claiming to be ex-Fox News host Tucker Carlson. The jig was up, according to Jones, when the fake Carlson started saying “lewd, sexual things.”How Conspiracy Theories and Disinformation Spiral Out of Control on the Internet | TechModoChris James, the YouTuber behind the NotEvenAShow channel, tweeted Wednesday that he used a spoofed version of…

Jones was the center of two defamation lawsuits last year—one in Connecticut and one in Texas. Image: Joe Buglewicz (Getty Images)As the Feds try to rip Alex Jones’ $2,000 cat from his conspiracy peddling hands, the disgraced right-wing Infowars host has been reportedly concealing funds while paying out the court-ordered $1.5 billion in damages to the families of the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting.As first reported in the New York Times, Jones has transferred millions of dollars in real estate, cash, and business deals…

Alex Jones is suffering under the weight of massive lawsuits and harsh social media bans, but he’s still finding ways to get his crazed philosophy out into the wider web. A Media Matters for America investigation released Friday found that a website heavily linked to conspiracist Alex Jones has lingered on several social media sites including Facebook and Twitter, despite the prominent hate figure and his conspiracy power hour podcast InfoWars’ explicit ban. The site, called National File, has been running a wide-ranging…

The hits keep on coming for Alex Jones, the disgraced radio host who peddled lies and conspiracy theories on his show Infowars following the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Now having declared bankruptcy following his repeated trials for his misinformation about the mass shooting, Jones is sounding the alarm against the Department of Justice, who he claims wants to take his expensive cat away from him.Jones says his ragdoll cat Mushu is worth approximately $2,000 and claims that the Department of Justice spent five…

Jones, a serial provocateur who founded the far-right website InfoWars, has been ordered to pay nearly $1.5 bn in damages for calling a mass shooting in a school-- "hoax." American radio host Alex Jones reaped millions spouting conspiracy-laden falsehoods that helped drive up sales of products like libido boosters, exploiting an internet ecosystem that experts say makes misinformation a lucrative business.Jones, a serial provocateur who founded the far-right website InfoWars, has been ordered to pay nearly $1.5 billion…