InfoWars is an American far-right conspiracy theory and fake news website owned by Alex Jones.
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InfoWars is an American far-right conspiracy theory and fake news website owned by Alex Jones.
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InfoWars has issued retractions various times as a result of legal challenges.
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InfoWars earns revenue from the sale of products pitched by Jones during the show, including dietary supplements.
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InfoWars was created in 1999 by American conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who remains its controlling influence.
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In June 2018, Corsi's connection to InfoWars ended; he received six months of severance payments.
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In June 2017, it was announced that Roger Stone, a former campaign advisor for Donald Trump, would be hosting his own InfoWars show "five nights a week", with an extra studio being built to accommodate his show.
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In May 2019, President Donald Trump tweeted or retweeted defenses of people associated with InfoWars, including editor Paul Joseph Watson and host Alex Jones, after the Facebook ban.
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The Wikipedia community deprecated and blacklisted InfoWars as a source by snowball clause consensus in 2018; the community determined that InfoWars is a "conspiracy theorist and fake news website".
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Jones frequently uses InfoWars to assert that mass shootings are conspiracies or "false flag" operations; these false claims are often subsequently spread by other fake news outlets and on social media.
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InfoWars has regularly claimed, without evidence, that mass shootings have been staged "false flag" operations and has accused survivors of such events of being crisis actors employed by the United States government.
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In 2017, InfoWars published a fake story about U S yogurt manufacturer Chobani, with headlines including "Idaho yogurt maker caught importing migrant rapists" and "allegations that Chobani's practice of hiring refugees brought crime and tuberculosis to Twin Falls".
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In 2017, the supplements sold on the InfoWars store were primarily sourced from Dr Edward F Group III, a chiropractor who founded the Global Healing Center supplement vendor.
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Lesser source of revenue for InfoWars is its "money bomb" telethons, which resemble public radio fundraisers, except InfoWars is a for-profit institution.
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In 2014, Jones claimed that InfoWars was accumulating over $20 million in annual revenue.
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The New York Times attributed most of the revenue to sales of supplements, including "Super Male Vitality" and "Brain Force Plus, " which InfoWars purported would increase testosterone and mental agility, respectively.
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InfoWars is considered to be part of the US alt-right movement.
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InfoWars began hosting a podcast and posting YouTube videos of his views.
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InfoWars announced on InfoWars that there was a warrant for his arrest and that he would fight the charges.
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