After a number of tech companies—including Apple, YouTube, Facebook, Spotify, Pinterest, Linkedin, and, um, YouPorn—banded together to kick psychotic cone of gyro meat Alex Jones off of their platforms early last week, all eyes turned to Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, who looked down from the pod high above Silicon Valley…
Alex Jones was a novelty, once upon a time, a powerless, conspiracy-spouting nutter livening up the local fringe on public access. You’d get stoned, tune in, and quietly marvel at his passion while laughing at the absurdity of his words. That was the Alex Jones who strolled into an audition for Richard Linklater’s…
As welcome as the decision of pretty much every internet media platform to purge Alex Jones’ putrid breed of “truth-telling” from their systems may be, some people out there are not so thrilled. No, we’re not just talking about Twitter, stalwart protector of the very worst forms of free expression—we’re talking about…
Confirming its status as the social media platform where propagating conspiracy theories that hound the families of school shooting victims out of their homes won’t get you banned, but pretending to be an Italian Elon Musk will, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey refused to give in to peer pressure—the coolest kind of…
We’ve presumably all heard by now that late Sunday night, in what seems to have been either a coordinated attack secretly ordered by Chinese communists (if you’re a true, tinfoil hat-wearing Infowars fan) or the long-awaited end of a very stupid game of chicken, major social-media and streaming platforms, including…
YouTube has a far-right problem. The online video platform’s reluctance to actually deal with the wackos, nihilists, and hatemongers in its midst has been widely noted and critiqued, and today YouTube responded with a move that, frankly, has been a long time coming: It finally deleted The Alex Jones Channel. The…
With the appearance of numerous sign-waving supporters at a Trump rally last week, the world at large was introduced to a far-right conspiracy theory known as QAnon. Until recently, QAnon stuff remained in the dark corners of 4chan, 8chan, and Reddit, but as it continues to spill into mainstream news coverage, we’re…
Spotify has just become the latest online media hosting service forced to reckon with its responsibilities re: the propagation of hate speech, with the platform announcing today that it’s pulled some—but not all—of its episodes of Alex Jones’ Infowars off of its servers. (At present, there are still 613 episodes of…
Well, hey, it looks like some celebration is in order! After all, it’s not every day that Infowars host Alex Jones turns out to be right about something (even if does end up happening several months after the fact). But, true to his word, it really does look like YouTube is targeting the reality skeptic/ Brain Force …
Tomorrow is the Fourth of July, the day when Americans briefly set aside their differences and come together to celebrate what a great nation this is to get sweaty, buzzed, and overfed in. It’s true that our union of uneasy cohabitation has perhaps never been more tested. There are marches in the streets. There are…
It’s hard to find an action more heinous than falsely labeling another person as a crisis actor—i.e., a false flag-waving paid publicity plant at a modern tragedy, invented by right-wing conspiracy enthusiasts as a way to dream away the real victims of school shootings and the like. Tossing that label at an actual…
Uwe Boll, the creative visionary behind such classics of cinema as Bloodrayne 2: Deliverance, Blubberella, and In The Name Of The King 3: The Last Mission may have retired from filmmaking, but he hasn’t left behind the other great passion of his career: challenging people to public fistfights.
Last week, a report came out that human-sized garbage monster Alex Jones and his conspiracy theory distribution network InfoWars were facing a ban from YouTube after amassing two “strikes” against the video site’s policies on bullying and harassment. Specifically, Jones had supposedly gotten in trouble for videos in…
Everyone put on your surprised faces: Mother Jones reports that two former staffers at InfoWars have accused Alex Jones of sexual harassment and racial and religious discrimination. Originally reported in British tabloid The Daily Mail, the charges come almost a year after the racial and sexual harassment scandal that…
When we last checked in on shamed neo-Nazi hanger-on Baked Alaska, he had been kicked off Twitter and was livestreaming some sort of talk show from what certainly seemed to be his mom’s house in Alaska. This was just the latest in the troll’s long string of humiliations, which include possibly macing himself (see…
It takes very little to set off InfoWars host and professional asshole Alex Jones, but the idea of Oprah Winfrey possibly running for president is definitely not a “little” thing to guy with Jones’ sensibilities. So, it should come as no surprise that he’s totally losing his shit over the response to Winfrey’s speech…
There’s a reason everyone was dunking on Infowars chief loon Alex Jones when he posted the below tweet this Thanksgiving:
One of the saddest yet most freeing things about getting older is the realization that our lives are not three-act plays. There is no structure, no clean arcs, no archetypal figures. There is no easy, digestible explanation for the horrors of this world. Chaos reigns, and the narratives we see are the ones we create…
Info Wars host Alex Jones is a disgusting wad of human-sized Silly Putty, constantly getting smushed across the newspaper page of reality and peeled back to reveal a weird and faded imitation where everything is backwards and there’s little hairs and skin flakes stuck inside. He’s a bad person who says and does bad…
While his three-year tenure as a Daily Show correspondent seems like solid preparation for his own satirical late-night series, Jordan Klepper has a couple of major obstacles to overcome as he launches The Opposition With Jordan Klepper. Taking over the plum, post-Daily Show spot held down so ably by Larry Wilmore…
