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# infowars

This year
2023
Debunked: Conspiracy site Infowars used fake claims about Ireland as evidence of 'white genocide'
A comment given by a CSO worker to a committee has been taken as evidence of a non-existent government plan.
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Sep 9th 2023, 8:00 PM
Last year
2022
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones files for personal bankruptcy following $1 billion court ruling
He has been ordered to pay nearly $1.5 billion in damages over his false claim that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax.
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Dec 2nd 2022, 5:01 PM
Kanye West kicked off Twitter by Musk for 'incitement to violence'
“I like Hitler,” Ye said several times during his appearance on Infowars
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Dec 2nd 2022, 8:19 AM
Alex Jones ordered to pay almost $1 billion to families of Sandy Hook victims
Jones pushed the lie that the 2012 massacre never happened, and that the grieving families were actors
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Oct 12th 2022, 9:42 PM
Jury yet to reach verdict in Alex Jones' Sandy Hook defamation trial
The jury must decide how much Jones and his company Free Speech Systems should pay to relatives of eight Sandy Hook victims.
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Oct 7th 2022, 11:02 PM
Closing arguments held in Alex Jones’ Sandy Hook defamation trial
The trial will determine how much Jones and his company, Free Speech Systems, should pay for claiming the school shooting was a hoax.
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Oct 6th 2022, 10:35 PM
Alex Jones gives evidence at trial over his Sandy Hook hoax lies
The plaintiffs include an FBI agent who responded to the shooting and relatives of eight of the victims.
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Sep 22nd 2022, 5:42 PM
Stopping ‘bully’ Alex Jones will be the most important work you do, jury told
The trial will decide how much the controversial conspiracy theorist should pay relatives of victims of a mass school shooting.
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Sep 13th 2022, 9:50 PM
Conspiracy website Infowars files for bankruptcy as Alex Jones faces libel lawsuits
Jones previously claimed that the Sandy Hook school shootings did not happen.
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Apr 19th 2022, 8:39 AM
All time
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ordered to pay $100k after he claimed Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax
A 20-year-old gunman killed 20 first-graders, six educators and himself at the school in 2012.
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Jan 1st 2020, 3:00 PM
Far-right activist Tommy Robinson begs Donald Trump for political asylum following court retrial
He claimed he would be killed by ‘jihadi gangs’ if he is sent to prison.
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Jul 9th 2019, 3:23 PM
Explainer: The US president, the CNN journalist and the case of a doctored video
Footage shared by Sarah Huckabee Sanders was used to justify the suspension of Jim Acosta’s press pass yesterday.
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Nov 8th 2018, 5:21 PM
Twitter permanently bans far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones
The far-right conspiracy theorist is best known for calling the 9/11 attacks an inside job and describing the Sandy Hook school massacre as a hoax.
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Sep 7th 2018, 7:21 AM
Twitter suspends personal account of Infowars' host Alex Jones
It comes a week after Twitter said it would not follow other social media companies in banning Jones from its platform.
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Aug 15th 2018, 11:56 AM
'He hasn't violated our rules': Twitter chief defends not suspending Infowars' Alex Jones
Apple, Facebook, Spotify and YouTube have all banned Alex Jones, who runs the website Infowars.
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Aug 8th 2018, 7:59 AM
Wikipedia bans Daily Mail links as references
A spokesperson for the Daily Mail said it had “banned all its journalists from using Wikipedia as a sole source in 2014 because of its unreliability”.
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Feb 9th 2017, 10:25 PM