CNN’s vigilantism sends advertisers running from InfoWars

Advertisers are quickly abandoning Alex Jones’ InfoWars channels on YouTube after they discovered their ads were displayed on the controversial channels, courtesy of CNN. CNN claims that big companies like Nike, Acer, Mozilla, Alibaba, Expedia, ClassPass, 20th Century Fox, and others have discovered they had ads playing on the Alex Jones Channel. Now, a number […]

Advertisers pull out of InfoWars’ YouTube channels

Brands are once again beating a hasty retreat after learning that they were running ads on objectionable YouTube channels. Several big brands (including Acer, Alibaba, Fox, Nike and Paramount) have suspended ads from InfoWars’ channels after CNN demonstrated that their commercials were streaming on the conspiracy-peddling network’s videos. The companies said they were not only […]

YouTube finally notices Infowars is peddling dangerous conspiracies

Earlier this week, YouTube took down a video from one of Infowars’ channels. It was one of many videos out there claiming that students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School are not in fact students and school shooting survivors, but are instead paid “crisis actors.” The video, which was titled “David Hogg Can’t Remember His […]

Inside The InfoWars Orbit

AUSTIN — It was the winter of 1997 and Alex Jones couldn’t stop getting punched in the face. Out on the cracked asphalt of Austin Public Access Television’s parking lot, under the sprawling Texas live oaks, Jones was very much losing a fight to a man known affectionately in Austin’s alternative media scene as “SpaceHitler.” […]

Alex Jones’ Infowars Calls On Comedy

It appears quite inconceivable that Infowars, the nutcase conspiracy theory website which claims things like 9/11 was an inside job, is getting its information from the wrong sources. Alex Jones, its conspiracy theorist extraordinaire, has been in the news lately for his apparent meltdown during interviewing protesters at the Trump inauguration. He reportedly went to […]