In what he described as an “emergency broadcast” on Saturday, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones claimed that his far-right news company, Infowars’, studios in Austin, Texas, might be shut down by federal authorities soon.
“This is going to be Infowars’ last show, because I learned yesterday that they were going to padlock the door and kick us out last night,” Jones said while on Infowars on Saturday.
On the same day, Friday, May 31, the news outlet published an article saying it might be shut down in 48 hours.
Newsweek contacted Infowars by email on Sunday morning for comment and any evidence of the alleged attempt to shut down the company’s studios.
Jones said that he spotted “guards looking at me weird” at the entrance of the Infowars building and believed that his company was going to be shut down.
Basically, the entire studio has been repossessed, has guards around the perimeter.
You can currently find clips of him breaking down and crying on twitter, and the whole broadcast is viewable on rumble, but I don’t have an x account nor am I going to post a rumble link.
He played out the end of the broadcast with, of course, ‘My Way’ by Sinatra.
Sounds like a Crisis Actor.
Should have been shut down years ago.
Imagine if this was all a lie for him to sunset Infowars and return in another format/show/angle
Good riddance…
This made the rounds yesterday, but the only source was Jones himself, and nothing appears to have happened. So, yeah, probably just drumming up cash from the rubes.
Couldn’t happen to a better person. I wouldn’t be surprised if he was lying to drum up donations though.
God don’t edge me like that
How do people fall for this guy’s lies? He’s not even good at it…
Fundraising bullshit? Let’s charge him with fraud and throw his ass in jail.
Can’t wait for the next for next episode of Knowledge Fight to cover this!
He has made this claim in the past. It’s just another grift.
“They want us shut down because in bankruptcy and what was happening we have a path with the judge to continue on for years, and the judge has signaled that. So, different groups involved in the bankruptcy that will be exposed soon have literally made a move to shut this place down and end my show,” he added.
I know that when I’m desperate and worried that something terrible is imminent, I like to hold back a big surprise as a teaser. It helps with ratings. Even though I’m not on tv. The point is, ya gotta juice the moment.
“I’ve been targeted for abuse. I was duped by someone. Federal files in secret have claimed that I’m committing crimes. This was untrue, of course[…]This may be my final performance.”
Bar bar bar, blub blurb… Cry for me, Alex. Let me drink your sweet tears.
Jones received the immediate support of MAGA Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, who posted a photo with Jones on X writing: “I stand with Alex Jones.”
Oh, Margie. You’re such a handful. Tell ya what. Put mirrors on the roof of Allie’s studio to protect it from the Jewy Space Lasers and everything will be ok.
I’m starting a GoFuckMe for ole’ Alex and Margie to buy some mirrors. Dig deep everyone. We gotta save this bastion of truth and freedumb.
Lol yeah, that shit is what made me realize he wasn’t trustworthy even as I was down the rabbit hole he made his money from. It was basically (in the conclusion of a several hour high production video), “The esoteric agenda is that the global elites want to kill off 90%+ of the world population to reduce resource usage. But don’t worry, I have a solution! Just wait for my next video and I’ll tell you all about it!”
I watched that video a few years after it came out, so looked for that follow-up (thinking the whole time, “isn’t this a bit urgent to wait for the next video? You could just add a few minutes to this one and say it now! Though if you really have a solution and this is really going on, how are you even still alive to say all of this? Also, how are you paying for such a well-produced video?”
Paranoia pulled me out of that rabbit hole because I concluded at the time that he was either just lying about it all, or if he was right about any of it, he was more likely hired by them to throw people off by adding in bullshit like aliens or lizard people and kill the credibility, as well as keep people who still did believe (or just filtered the obvious bullshit like I did, thinking there was still something of value left over) delayed, waiting for that “next video with the solution”.
I had no idea at the time that the grift actually generated a lot of cash from donations and selling bullshit brain pills. Hope his empire is really coming to an end here and that this isn’t just another push for more donations (or call to violence).
and that this isn’t just another push for more donations (or call to violence).
It’s both. Plus a grift for more money.
I really wanted to like KnowledgeFight, because taking the piss out of InfoWars is gold. But one of the hosts of KF seems to be maybe slightly deaf or something? He yells every single word and it’s just like way too irritating.
Is there another podcast out there that tackles InfoWars but maybe at a volume made for human consumption?
I know what you mean but it’s not that grating as you make it out to be, honestly. Maybe you caught an especially wild episode, but he (Jordan) has calmed down a lot over the years. It’s the only podcast doing a deep dive on InfoWars that I know of and I cannot imagine anyone else taking on this job anytime soon.
Could also be your podcast app - I use Pocket Casts and it has a balancer which evens out badly mixed podcasts i.e. takes down the peaks and lifts up the quiet parts. Works really well.
any evidence
Really? Asking Alex Jones for … evidence, of something, anything? You’re kidding, right?
