Here's how Alex Jones, who got his start in public access broadcasting in Austin in the 1990s, helped mainstream conspiracy theories become part of American life. | via NPR
the parents of a first grader killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, after years of falsely claiming that no children died and the families were"crisis actors" in a"giant hoax" designed to take away guns.
"I have asked the question because I believe a lot of things are provocateur or allowed to happen," Jones replied. After the September 11th attacks, Jones surged to fame as a"truther," claiming the Bush administration was behind the tragedy. "He's at least a catalyst of those prevailing narratives that follow almost every newsworthy tragedy, whether it's a mass shooting or otherwise," said Sara Aniano, a disinformation researcher at the Anti-Defamation League.was perhaps the most egregious example. For years, Infowars aired falsehoods that the tragedy was invented and implied the families of the murdered children were lying.
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