The name of Alex Jones' popular youtube channel is Info Wars, but I think Alex is more of an Info whore if you ask me. His news is cheap, dirty and, when it comes to facts anyway, scantily clad. Of all the propagandists out there right now, Alex is most likely the worst, which is why his net worth is so much smaller than that of Tucker Carlson, another popular propagandist. Alex is not taken seriously in most serious media circles; he is used as a kind of clown for paranoid people to listen to so that the main news stories do not have to be too weird. He is also the main reason that Donald Trump ever became president. Had Jones never endorsed Trump, using several conspiracy theories about Hilary Clinton being a pedophile to do so, Trump would have never become the violent authoritarian dictator he eventually came to be; he simply would not have had the votes. When I first returned to reality, I frantically tried to warn people about this info whore you all call Alex Jones. I described in great detail how dangerous he was, not because he made sense, but because he believed in what he was saying or at least he believes in the real harm that the things he says will cause. People often look at people like Jones and think, "well, there's no need to worry about him; he is clearly crazy and no smart person would ever listen to him." An interesting observation considering that Jones, like his dear friend Joe Rogan (Rogan has had Jones on his show, which I am sure is just a coincidence), has one of the most popular podcasts on the planet. Time and time again people would say, "Alex is just some fringe conspiracy theorist", but all the while Jones gained a substantial following, mostly by appealing to racists and bigots. Jones has railed against what he termed, "the Jewish mafia" (a common term in white supremacists circles), stating that "leftist Jews" showed up in disguise at the racist Unite The Right rally in Virginia in order to cause trouble and discredit white supremacists. "Based in Austin, Texas, Jones boasts a national audience, thanks to his  radio show, which is broadcast on 100 stations nationwide, and his  websites Infowars and Prison Planet, where his many specious claims are  presented, in multimedia format, as “news.” Though platforms, pages, and  channels associated with Jones were banned from prominent social media  platforms in 2018, Infowars continues to maintain a significant reach.  According to the web analytics firm Quantcast, Infowars reached approximately 3.34 million unique readers in February 2020 alone" (ADL). Jones' net worth is five million big ones. How many millionaires do you know? Are they on the "fringe" of society too? Or are they your bosses who tell you what to do every day? I rest my case. Throughout the Trump years and well into the pandemic, Alex Jones has led us all about the nose, toying with our emotions and destroying our health. Meanwhile, it took social media giants almost twenty years to finally ban his content from their platforms. If he reached millions of people in one month of 2020 alone, how many people has Jones reached since he started his ridiculous career in 1999? There is probably no way to know for sure. But one thing we can know for certain is that pretty much nothing this clown says is ever actually true. "In the months since the coronavirus emerged as a public health threat,  Jones has been hawking several products and dietary supplements as  preventative and treatment measures for the virus – despite a lack of  supporting scientific evidence." (ADL) Hm, perhaps he should change the name of the show to Science Wars, if he can afford to keep it on the air after he pays the victims and his lawyers that is. The source for the article read in this episode is NBC; there was no author listed.