http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ssed-them.html
http://www.newsweek.com/who-ashley-b...-sexual-825341
This sort of stuff has been expected from Jones since last year after the Pizzagate Scandal and Chobani Lawsuits threaten to expose him for being deranged.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...icle-1.3848193
https://nypost.com/2018/02/28/infowa...t-ex-staffers/
Here are updates.
Former staffers at controversial conspiracy theory website InfoWars claim founder Alex Jones laughed as they endured frequent racist harassment and once groped a female employee, according to a new report.
Rob Jacobson, who is Jewish, and Ashley Beckford, who is black, both filed complaints with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission earlier this month outlining the abuse they allegedly suffered working under Jones and other colleagues, documents published by the Daily Mail reveals.
Beckford, a production assistant and presenter, said she lasted less than a year at the website, during which time Jones allegedly groped her butt while saying, “Who wouldn’t want a black wife?”
He also wandered around shirtless while “leering” at female employees and guests, she claims.
One colleague called her a “c-on,” another kept referring to black people as “colored” on air — despite Beckford’s objections — while a third flaunted a pair of swastika-covered sneakers he received from a fan, she claims.
She also says she was pressured to engage with Hillary Clinton supporters on camera — who subjected her to “racial slurs” and called her an “Uncle Tom.”
Beckford says she was ultimately fired after demanding the same pay as her white, male colleagues.
Meanwhile, Jacobson, a video editor, claims he was mocked for being Jewish and that Jones also nicknamed him “Beefcake” — a reference, he says, to gay porn.
“My employer used racial slurs against me, calling me ‘The Resident Jew,’ ‘The Jewish Individual,’ and ‘Yacobson.’ My workplace was a syndicated radio show, so these slurs were made publicly, on air,” he writes in his complaint.
“My employer also inserted my face onto the photo of a Hasidic Jewish man and circulated that picture around the office.”
When KKK leader David Duke came on InfoWars as a guest, Jones introduced Jacobson as his “Jewish employee” while Duke called him “the Jewish individual” — a nickname other colleagues adopted, he says.
Jacobson believes he was fired as an act of retaliation for complaining to HR.
Jones denied most of the allegations to the Daily Mail as “completely, totally false” — but acknowledged that Duke called Jacobson a “Jewish individual.”
http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/03/tech...nes/index.html
Here is an update on Jones.
He's a lunatic.
Originally Posted by Nic B
You can take those Fleets and shove them up your ass
Jones and Harassment Scandals were expected ever since Jones said he may have done stuff to 150 women to be a man. If Jones was telling the truth that meant that he has more victims than Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby, and all other celebrities that's been named in the me too scandal.
But in an Alex Jones Scandal infowars will cover up this harassment scandal with some other scandal they created.
And in other news, water is wet.
The guy's a Class A jagoff. None of this surprises me.
"A vagabond dreamer, a rhymer and singer of songs
Singing to no one and nowhere to really belong." - Waylon Jennings
He's so unbearably gross.
Dude tries to act like he's just an actor but look at him. He's 110% nuts. It's just too natural and his eyes are certified crazy.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d...es-doesnt-like
Damn here we go again I expect this supposed birther conspiracy to come into play again and even longer than when Obama was president. Apparently the birther conspiracy that "Alex Jones is Bill Hicks" has been around longer since 2006 in this article and resurfaced again when Alex Jones came up with the "Performance artist" card last year.
https://www.thewrap.com/alex-jones-i...-frog-creator/
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/th...gement-1092233
Update Alex Jones is named in a lawsuit but this time Pepe the frog's owners suing Jones. Damn right when the Harassment scandals were going to be discussed here this happens.
Matt Furie says his "peaceful frog-dude" was co-opted in a poster featuring Pepe alongside InfoWars founder Alex Jones, President Donald Trump, Milo Yiannopoulos and others.
The legal campaign to take Pepe the Frog back from the alt-right is now in California federal court as artist Matt Furie has filed a copyright lawsuit against InfoWars.
Furie says he created Pepe as a "peaceful frog-dude" at the beginning of the century with the catchphrase "Feels good man." His anthropomorphic creation then became a meme on the internet, and was tweeted by Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj and Buzzfeed, among others.
"But beginning in 2015, various fringe groups connected with the alt-right attempted to co-opt Pepe by mixing images of Pepe with images of hate, including white supremacist language and symbols, Nazi symbols, and other offensive imagery," states the complaint lodged in court Monday. "Furie has worked hard to counteract that negative image of Pepe, including collaborating with the Anti-Defamation League on the #SavePepe campaign to restore Pepe as a character representing peace, togetherness, and fun."
The lawsuit pinpoints one poster in particular as a source of copyright infringement. The poster features Pepe alongside InfoWars founder Alex Jones, President Donald Trump, Milo Yiannopoulos, Ann Coulter, Matt Drudge, Roger Stone and others with the text "MAGA," short for Trump's campaign slogan, "Make America Great Again."
Furie, represented by attorney Rebecca Girolamo at Wilmer Cutler, says he didn't authorize such use of Pepe. He alleges the poster is being sold by InfoWars in its online store.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/...-claims-459244
Update Alex Jones is sued for spreading conspiracy theories on Charlottesville.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/17/b...andy-hook.html
https://www.rollingstone.com/politic...awsuit-w519239
Update Alex Jones is sued for the Sandy Hook rants
On multiple occasions, Jones has claimed that the Sandy Hook attack did not actually happen, calling the massacre – which claimed the lives of 20 first-graders and six teachers – a "giant hoax" and insisting that it was staged by professional actors. A representative for InfoWars, Jones' media company, did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
"Our clients have been tormented for five years by Mr. Jones' ghoulish accusations that they are actors who faked their children's deaths as part of a fraud on the American people," Mark Bankston, an attorney for the plaintiffs, told The Hollywood Reporter. "Enough is enough."
Both lawsuits focus on statements that Jones made relatively recently, including a 2017 segment on his radio show entitled "Sandy Hook Vampires Exposed." The New York Times reports that the lawsuits allege, "[Jones'] statements were a continuation and elaboration of a years-long campaign to falsely attack the honesty of the Sandy Hook parents, casting them as participants in a ghastly conspiracy and cover-up."
And now Jones named in another Sandy Hook Court case
https://www.thedenverchannel.com/new...se-against-him
Broadcaster Alex Jones will have to submit to a sworn deposition as part of a defamation lawsuit Sandy Hook families filed against the broadcaster and some of his associates, a Connecticut judge ruled Wednesday.
The ruling from Judge Barbara Bellis also allows three other defendants to be deposed, individuals who are "critical to Infowars' business operations," according to a press release from the Sandy Hook families.
The decision comes on the heels of Bellis' ruling that Jones must turn over internal financial, business and marketing documents related to InfoWars' operations.
The legal complaint in the case says Jones does not believe the shooting was a hoax, but nevertheless has repeatedly accused Sandy Hook families of faking their family members' deaths. There are also six companies named in the suit, including various entities related to Jones' InfoWars website.
CNN has reached out to Jones for a comment and has not heard back.
"The Jones defendants concoct elaborate and false paranoia-tinged conspiracy theories because it moves product and they make money," the suit alleges. "Not because they truly believe what they are saying, but rather because it increases profits."
"Jones is the chief amplifier for a group that has worked in concert to create and propagate loathsome, false narratives about the Sandy Hook shooting and its victims, and promote their harassment and abuse," the lawsuit states.
Jones has denied the allegations. The other parties named in the suit did not previously respond to CNN's requests for comment.
Mark Barden, whose son, Daniel, was one of 20 first-graders killed in the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School reacted to the ruling.
"For years, Alex Jones and his co-conspirators have turned the unthinkable loss of our sweet little Daniel and of so many others into advertising dollars and fundraising appeals. It is far beyond time that he be held accountable for the pain his false narratives have caused so many and today's ruling brings us one step closer to doing that."
Attorney Josh Koskoff, who is one of the attorneys representing the families, released this statement.
"It is unsurprising that Alex Jones would do anything in his power to avoid testifying under oath and being forced to confront his outrageous conduct. From the beginning, we have said that Jones knowingly peddled false and malicious narratives in order to make money at the expense of the Sandy Hook families' grief, safety and security. Today's ruling moves us one step closer to proving this."
https://www.newstimes.com/local/arti...r-13625764.php
Update on the Sandy Hook Rants
NEWTOWN - The Sandy Hook families suing extremist Alex Jones for defamation are willing to sign a court agreement to seal sensitive information during the pretrial phase, so that it doesn’t get disclosed publicly.
But the families draw the line at keeping Jones’ business records private, or agreeing to give him journalistic privilege to keep his sources confidential.
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That is according to dueling motions filed in state Superior Court in Bridgeport, where Jones faces three defamation lawsuits by eight families of Sandy Hook massacre victims and an FBI agent who investigated the 2012 mass shooting.
“Having used the plaintiffs’ grief and loss to their profit, the Jones defendants now attempt to force the plaintiffs to protect their profitability,” wrote the families’ attorneys in a motion on Monday. “For plaintiffs, such conditions are repugnant.”
An attorney representing Jones and businesses associated with his Texas-based InfoWars internet show disagreed, saying an order was needed to protect Jones’ trade secrets from public disclosure.
“Such sensitive information must be protected,” wrote Jones’ attorney Jay Wolman on Friday. “[S]uch is especially necessary where plaintiffs have repeatedly communicated with the media about this case and it is likely that proprietary information may be revealed to the press absent a court order.”
Arguments over the protective order are the latest pre-trial skirmish between one of America’s most popular extremists and some of America’s most well-known involuntary public figures.
Last week, the judge gave families the right to interview Jones under oath for five hours as part of the lawsuit discovery process.
Jones has already moved to dismiss the lawsuits, arguing that although he once may have believed that the Sandy Hook massacre never happened, he no longer believes it was a government hoax, and he has the right to be wrong.
It's so he can get them on the show. He's such a shit weasel.
You can take those Fleets and shove them up your ass
At this point, wouldn't it be easier to list the things he's not being sued for. Human piece of garbage.
Same with Donald Trump's cabinet you can say the exact same stuff. But its insane that Alex Jones has more scandals than even Fox News, people on the me too list, Sinclair.
I just don't want to catch him in bed with a goblin!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwXXTzo00EI
Well apparently Alex Jones is connected to Satanic cheerleaders.
Aren't all of them satanic?
Well Satanic-------> is gotta be some sort of code word for slut by Jones??
http://www.ctnewsjunkie.com/archives...infowars_suit/
An update on Jones
Losing a child in a horrific event like the December 2012 Sandy Hook School shooting causes unimaginable grief and suffering. Add to that pain the incessant rantings of conspiracy theorists, who claim the entire scenario was staged to promote a gun-control agenda, and the incident becomes farcical, surreal, unbearable.
Three Sandy Hook parents — Neil Hesslin, Leonard Pozner, and Veronique De La Rosa — said enough is enough and sued talk-show host Alex Jones last week for defamation, alleging he called them “crisis actors” and incited “death threats” against them.
Hesslin filed one lawsuit, while Pozner and De La Rosa filed another. The suits, each seeking $1 million, were filed in Texas because Infowars, Jones’ infamous media company, is located there.
In July, Alex Jones appeared with Megan Kelly on national TV in an NBC interview defending the variety of conspiracy theories he espouses, including Sandy Hook. Local NBC affiliate WVIT decided not to air the interview “because the wounds caused by the Sandy Hook tragedy are ‘understandably still so raw’.”
Pozner, in a Hartford Courant op-ed days before the interview, condemned NBC for the publicity it afforded Jones: “The narrative alleges that the 26 victims and their parents, the police and first responders, and the majority of the town were actually crisis actors on the government’s payroll. This, despite the widespread availability of legitimate information to the contrary. Jones and his fellow ‘hoaxers’ have up until now spread this thoroughly debunked theory in the darkest corners of the media, shamelessly exploiting a tragedy to make a quick buck. Now, to the dismay of rational society, Jones landed the mainstream media interview of a lifetime.”
And hence, the lawsuit nine months later. As Ponzer noted, “tens of thousands are flocking to charismatic con men like Jones, with cultish reverence and conviction. With the aid of media platforms such as alternative talk radio, YouTube, Google, Facebook, and Twitter, scores more are being reached and indoctrinated into the cult of delusional lunacy every day.”
Indeed, it’s a self-perpetuating system.
University of North Carolina professor Zeynep Tujekci explained that “algorithms push YouTube viewers toward ever-more-intense content. If you keep clicking on videos about running, you’ll eventually get ultramarathons. Similarly, if you like Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton videos, algorithms will push you toward more extreme content on the right and left.”
This environment has enabled extremists like Alex Jones to flourish. At that same time, it’s an environment that finds the traditional news media floundering.
According to a Monmouth University poll released earlier this month, “Large majorities of the American public believe that traditional media outlets engage in reporting fake news and that outside sources are actively trying to plant fake stories in the mainstream media.”
Specifically, “More than three in four Americans believe that traditional major TV and newspaper media outlets report ‘fake news’.” For 65% of Americans, “fake news” is not limited to “false or counterfeit” material “reported in a newspaper or news periodical or on a newscast” — the standard dictionary definition. For them, “fake news” also means “how news outlets make editorial decisions about what they choose to report.”
Said Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University poll: “These findings are troubling, no matter how you define ‘fake news.’ Confidence in an independent fourth estate is a cornerstone of a healthy democracy. Ours appears to be headed for the intensive care unit.”
The situation is of particular concern with national news. Fortunately, Connecticut is still served capably by “legacy media” outlets at the state and local level, most notably daily newspapers. The state has 10 daily newspapers with circulations of at least 15,000 within a total of 15 dailies overall. Not bad for a state of 3.5 million people.
In addition, Connecticut boasts at least seven news websites registered with LION (Local Independent Online News Publishers) — including CT News Junkie — that provide original reporting. Other regions of the country should be so lucky. The midsection of the country has been hit particularly hard by dying newspapers, resulting in “news deserts,” as a quick look at this map reveals.
So while news events in Connecticut are covered thoroughly by Connecticut news outlets, when those events become national news — like Sandy Hook — the coverage outside of the state is uneven, opening the door for media hucksters like Alex Jones.
The lawsuits filed by Hesslin, Pozner, and De La Rosa against Infowars, therefore, is long overdue. Here’s hoping the Sandy Hook parents win, putting a major dent in the bogus and reckless efforts of charlatans like Alex Jones.
Barth Keck is an English teacher and assistant football coach who teaches courses in journalism, media literacy, and AP English Language & Composition at Haddam-Killingworth High School. Email Barth here
https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/20...kfiring/220213
Update on Jones.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/militar...2016_167941638
Here we go on Jones
It was interesting to read the other day that Michael Hayden, the retired Air Force four-star general who went on to run the CIA, NSA and serve as principle deputy director of the Department of National Intelligence, believes the controversy over a 2015 military training exercise in the United States helped pave the way for the Russian information operation in the 2016 presidential election.
I made the same point back in December as a guest speaker at a gathering here in Tampa, the NATO-U.S. Special Operations Command Joint Senior Psychological Operations Conference.
Appearing on MSNBC?s Morning Joe as part of a book tour, Hayden said controversy about the Jade Helm 15 training exercise was exploited by Russians trying to sow division in the American public.
"They took their game to North America in 2015, and I won?t belabor it here but there was an exercise in Texas called Jade Helm 15 that Russian bots and the American alt-right media convinced most ? many ? Texans was an Obama plan to round up political dissidents," Hayden said on Morning Joe, as reported by the Austin American-Statesman. "It got so much traction that the governor of Texas had to call out the National Guard to observe the federal exercise to keep the population calm."
Just to recap, Jade Helm 15 was a military training exercise, held in 2015 across states including Florida, in which commandos and conventional forces prepared for the kind of urban warfare that military planners have been bracing for. Think the bloody battle to retake Mosul in Iraq earlier this year.
The argument I made to a room full of the world?s top practitioners of information operations was that by trying to convince people that Jade Helm 15 was instead a military plot to take over the country, radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones shaped the information battlespace through his InfoWars website in a way that benefited the Russians.
By taking bits and pieces of real information, including a 2014 story I wrote about a demonstration that international commandos put on at a Special Operations conference in Tampa, Jones and his minions constructed their delusional narrative.
But while delusional, it was enough, Hayden noted, for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to make sure the commandos weren?t pulling off the dirty deeds Jones swore they would.
Seeing the confusion and mistrust sowed by InfoWars, albeit on a small scale, the Russians were emboldened to conduct their information operation against the 2016 presidential election ? an effort on their part to sow confusion and mistrust on a far grander scale.
The Russians, Hayden said, were not just observers of the InfoWars delusion. Echoing the reporting of Clint Watts, a former infantry officer, FBI agent and executive officer of the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, Hayden said a Russian army of online bots helped amplify the discord.
Their information operation against the 2016 election succeeded on a grand scale. Our government is still paralyzed by an ongoing investigation into whether the campaign of Donald Trump colluded with the Russians. Meanwhile, the ideologic fissures in an already divided nation have been deepened as a result.
There was, of course, nothing really groundbreaking in my observation. The Russian activities were classic psychological operations. If you want to really visualize it, I suggest watching Rod Serling?s Twilight Zone episode, The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street, which first aired three days after I was born.
Nor is the concept of "fake news" even new. Ben Franklin used fake news, concocting propaganda stories about murderous "scalping" Indians working in league with the British King George III to whip up anti-royal fervor among the colonials.
But the theme of the Tampa conference was "Fake News: Identification, Susceptiblity and Inoculation." So I thought it important, from my vantage point as a newspaper reporter, to point out to the audience that what is often now termed fake news is either something people don?t like to see written or broadcast about themselves or honest errors in facts, something we all make.
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