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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. 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
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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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. life in pixels
    Does Facebook Need a Constitution?Facebook’s gestures toward “free speech” make it sound like a liberal democracy. But where are its checks and balances?
    By Max Read
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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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    The Only Pressure Facebook Understands Is From Its Megaplatform RivalsNobody can force Facebook to do anything, unless they’re the competition.
    By Brian Feldman
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    Facebook, Apple, and Spotify Remove Infowars ContentAll three platforms cited “hate speech” as the reason.
    By Brian Feldman
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    Does Facebook Need a Constitution?Facebook’s gestures toward “free speech” make it sound like a liberal democracy. But where are its checks and balances?
    By Max Read
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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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    Hero Adolescent Curses Out Infowars HostSmart!
    By Brian Feldman
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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
  19. The Alt-Right Is Debating Whether Bannon Needs a Better Press Strategy“He has a lot of friends out on the internet who love him, but we are all still waiting for him to unleash the beast.”
    By Olivia Nuzzi
  20. Alex Jones Is Just ‘Playing a Character,’ According to His LawyerThe conspiracy goes deeper than we thought.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  21. 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
  22. Finally, Someone Is Standing Up to Fake News: InfowarsNot the hero we need, but the hero we deserve.
    By Brian Feldman
  23. 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
  24. 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
  25. conspiracies
    N.H. Lawmaker Says Boston Was a Government JobThis lady is absolutely nuts. 
    By Dan Amira
  26. osama bin killed
    The Dumbest Deather TheoryBin Laden’s dead body has been preserved, on ice, for nearly ten years.
    By Dan Amira