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  1. onion wars
    The Onion’s Decision to Buy Infowars Started As a JokeThe Onion’s CEO explains their most expensive gag yet — assuming a judge doesn’t block their purchase of Alex Jones’s site.
    By Matt Stieb
  2. side shows
    Tucker Carlson Is Touring America With Malevolent KooksBringing along all his most shady friends.
    By Matt Stieb
  3. alex jones
    Alex Jones Speaks To The Media Outside The Sandy Hook Trial In Waterbury, Connecticut
    Sandy Hook Families Are Fighting Over What to Do With InfowarsIs it better to take Alex Jones’s money while he’s on the air or shut down Infowars only for him to pop up elsewhere?
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  4. alex jones
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    The Alex Jones–Sandy Hook Legal Fight Could End InfowarsThe trustee overseeing Jones’s media company said that he intends to liquidate the business and sell its assets to help pay Sandy Hook penalties.
    By Nia Prater
  5. broke
    Alex Jones Is Finally ScrewedThe Infowars founder has just filed to liquidate his company after stalling for years on the payments in the billion-dollar Sandy Hook settlement.
    By Matt Stieb
  6. conspiracy series
    Alex Jones Ordered to Pay Nearly $1 Billion to Sandy Hook FamiliesHe’s facing yet another trial determining defamation payouts later this year.
    By Matt Stieb
  7. conspiracist series
    Sandy Hook Parents Awarded Another $45 Million of Alex Jones’s MoneyThe Infowars founder has had an expensive week in court, and there are still two more trials to go against other Sandy Hook victims’ families.
    By Matt Stieb
  8. conspiracy series
    The Alex Jones Trial Is As Messy As You’d ExpectHe was ordered to pay $4.1 million to a Sandy Hook victim’s parents after a trial that saw him surprised by the revelation of his own texts.
    By Matt Stieb
  9. encounter
    Platforming a Platformer of the DeplatformedThe premiere of Alex Lee Moyer’s new Alex Jones documentary is a blockbuster anti-Establishment crossover event.
    By Simon van Zuylen-Wood
  10. alex jones
    Infowars Is Finally BrokeAlex Jones’s conspiracist website filed for bankruptcy, stalling the defamation settlements for families of Sandy Hook victims.
    By Matt Stieb
  11. media
    Alex Jones Will Be Forced to Pay Sandy Hook ParentsThe conspiracy theorist wouldn’t cooperate, so a judge ruled him liable by default.
    By Nia Prater
  12. lawsuits
    Alex Jones Must Pay Damages in Two Sandy Hook Cases: JudgeHow much he’ll have to pay the parents of two children killed in the school shooting will now be decided by a jury.
    By Chas Danner
  13. infowars
    Alex Jones Settles Pepe the Frog LawsuitJones will pay creator Matt Furie $15,000 to avoid a trial and further legal fees.
    By Brian Feldman
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    If I Were Alex Jones I’d Team Up With Logan Paul, TooPaul hosted Jones on a two-hour podcast episode this week.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  15. anthropaulogy
    It Appears Logan Paul Has Teamed Up With Alex JonesPaul hinted that Jones would appear on his podcast this week.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  16. hoaxers
    Alex Jones, Under Oath, Testifies ‘Psychosis’ Made Him a Sandy Hook HoaxerJones is being sued by the parent of a Sandy Hook victim.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  17. nra
    NRA Official Emailed Conspiracist to Spread Doubt on Parkland Day After ShootingThe day after Parkland, an NRA instructor emailed a man who had harassed Sandy Hook parents, prodding him to question reports on the shooting.
    By Matt Stieb
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    Twitter Finally Bans Alex JonesApple, Facebook, YouTube, and Spotify did this weeks ago.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  19. beef
    ‘Dumbass’ Alex Jones and ‘Thug’ Marco Rubio Trade Insults in Senate Hallway“I just don’t know who you are, man. I don’t read weird websites.”
    By Adam K. Raymond
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    Twitter Will Be Rid of Alex Jones for the Next 7 DaysThe platform announced it is suspending the Infowars host for inciting violence.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    Even Porn Sites Want Nothing to Do With Alex JonesPinterest and MailChimp also banned the Infowars host this week.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    Facebook, Apple, and Spotify Remove Infowars ContentAll three platforms cited “hate speech” as the reason.
    By Brian Feldman
  23. Alex Jones Wants Sandy Hook Parents to Pay His Legal FeesThe Infowars founder wants a judge to dismiss a defamation suit against him and compel the parents of Noah Pozner to pay $100,000 in his legal fees.
    By Adam K. Raymond
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    Alex Jones Has Been Suspended From FacebookThe conspiracy theorist suffers some consequences.
    By Brian Feldman
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    Facebook Won’t Ban Infowars Because … Honestly It Doesn’t Have a Good ReasonFacebook called Infowars “really problematic,” but said it hasn’t done anything to warrant being banned.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    Alex Jones Says He’s Being Bullied by a Teenage Stoneman-Shooting SurvivorDavid Hogg spoke out on Twitter after Infowars claimed that he was a paid “crisis actor,” and Alex Jones isn’t handling it well.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  27. Alex Jones: Trump Has Called Me 3 Times in the Last Few MonthsBut the calls come too early and Jones keeps missing them, he said.
    By Adam K. Raymond
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    Amazon Echo’s Alexa Jones Tells You the Truths They Don’t Want You to HearTired of the dulcet tones of Alexa? Try out the screams of a very, very angry conspiracy theorist from Texas.
    By Jake Swearingen
  29. media
    Megyn Kelly’s Alex Jones Interview Was Less Controversial Than ExpectedCritics said the edited version offered a decent overview of the Infowars host but still had journalistic shortcomings.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  30. How Far Will the Right Go in Blaming the Left for the Alexandria Shootings?Some commentators are taking the argument to some disturbing lengths.
    By Ed Kilgore
  31. Register Your Megyn Kelly Complaints With the White HouseIn 2017, being a journalist means interviewing people close to power whose ideas might be reprehensible or flat-out insane.
    By Olivia Nuzzi
  32. Trump Lawyer Hints Comey Part of ‘Deep State’ ConspiracyAfter calling Comey a liar, Trump attorney identifies him with the leakers some Trump fans believe are trying reverse the election.
    By Ed Kilgore
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    Alex Jones’s Infowars Media Empire Is Built to Sell Snake-Oil Diet SupplementsHow does Alex Jones make money? It’s not advertising, and it’s not subscriptions.
    By Seth Brown
  34. Alex Jones Is Just ‘Playing a Character,’ According to His LawyerThe conspiracy goes deeper than we thought.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  35. After Trump’s Syria Air Strikes, the Alt-Right Is Not Alright“I guess Trump wasn’t ‘Putin’s puppet’ after all, he was just another deep state/Neo-Con puppet.”
    By Eric Levitz
  36. Alex Jones and Roger Stone Are Starting to Think Jared Kushner Is IlluminatiTrump’s longtime ally tells the Infowars host that Kushner has been feeding anti–Steve Bannon stories to MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough.
    By Eric Levitz
  37. alternative facts
    Trump Is All-in on an Infowars-Approved Voter-Fraud Conspiracy TheoryUp until now, Trump and his staff have generally pointed, misleadingly, to mainstream studies to support the claim. Not anymore.
    By Jesse Singal
  38. Alex Jones Says He’s Been ‘Offered’ White House Press CredentialsThe chief nut at Infowars has a relationship with President Trump.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  39. Alex Jones Says Our Next President Will Soon Be on His ShowThe radio host — who has claimed that the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax — says Donald Trump will appear on his show in the “next few weeks.”
    By Eric Levitz
  40. Report: Clinton Linked to Satanic Ritual Involving Children and Marina AbramovicThis may be the far-right’s most unhinged misreading of a WikiLeaks email yet.
    By Eric Levitz
  41. The Internet’s Conservative Fever Swamps Aren’t Going Away, So We Need to AdaptIt’s probably time for everyone to give up on the idea that any level of denunciation or fact-checking can counter online gonzo media.
    By Jesse Singal
  42. Alex Jones’s Debate Meltdown Makes Trump Look PoliteHillary Clinton is a “frickin’ lying whore,” the conspiracy theorist said.
    By Adam K. Raymond
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    ‘Citizen Journalism’ Is a Catastrophe Right Now, and It’ll Only Get WorseIn theory, the internet could be a great place for crowdsourced journalism, analysis, and debunking. In theory.
    By Jesse Singal
  44. early and … sigh
    Donald Trump Joins Alex Jones’s InfowarsDonald Trump finally found a journalist whose theories about 9/11 are even more discredited than his own. 
    By Eric Levitz
  45. the national interest
    Paul’s GOP Hostile Takeover Gets More HostileAn audacious, heretofore successful plot meets its first resistance.
    By Jonathan Chait
  46. conspiracy theories
    Alex Jones: America’s Top Conspiracy TheoristThe mouthpiece of domestic paranoia speaks.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  47. boston bombing
    Does the Media Encourage Conspiracy Theories by Reporting on Them?It’s a symbiotic relationship.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  48. boston bombing
    Bombing Truther Crashes Boston Press ConferenceAsks Governor Patrick if attack was a ‘false flag.’
    By Adam Martin
  49. gun control
    White House Officially Refuses to Deport Piers MorganJay Carney finally responded to the petition asking for it.
    By Adam Martin
  50. epic rants
    The Man Who Would Deport Piers Morgan Goes Nuts on His Show [Updated]Alex Jones calls Morgan a “hatchet man of the new world order.”
    By Adam Martin
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