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Ex-Infowars Staffer Admits Making Up Stories
December 5, 2019 at 12:53 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 88 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2019/12/05/ex-infowars-staffer-admits-making-up-stories/
"SNIP....
Josh Owens, a former staff member at Alex Joness far-right conspiracy site Infowars, admits in the New York Times to making up stories for the site about the threat of Shariah law within the United States.
Writes Owens: The information did not meet our expectations, so we made it up, preying on the vulnerable and feeding the prejudices and fears of Joness audience. We ignored certain facts, fabricated others and took situations out of context to fit our narrative.
.....SNIP"
Dr. Strange
(25,917 posts)Initech
(100,043 posts)malaise
(268,724 posts)Whipping up fear is a business venture
applegrove
(118,501 posts)FM123
(10,053 posts)Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)Kinda like televangelists
SergeStorms
(19,187 posts)FOX Noise hosts (who actually believe they're journalists!). The entire reich-wing propaganda Wurlitzer does the same damned thing, from Rusty Limbaugh all the way to Hannity Insanity.
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)Turbineguy
(37,295 posts)I saw an INFOWARS bumper sticker on a contractor truck. "Hire me! I'm a moron!"
Jirel
(2,014 posts)But thanks for admitting yall are liars and scammers.
Qutzupalotl
(14,289 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Sure, a bunch of dirty fucking hippies have been saying it for years, and the evidence is right in front of people's eyes. But the media have been reluctant to call Infowars a toxic waste dump because . . . helefino. And the toxins spread, but nobody seems to know where the poison comes from.
underpants
(182,632 posts)Reading later
Celerity
(43,138 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)All a person had to do was listen to out takes of their shit, or have the misfortune of driving behind an InfoWars fan while out and about.