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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Ramon Antonio Vargas

Ex-Alex Jones employee reflects on job at Infowars: ‘It was nonsense. It was lies’

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InfoWars founder Alex Jones speaks to the media outside the Waterbury superior court during his trial on 21 September 2022 in Connecticut. Photograph: Joe Buglewicz/Getty Images

A former video editor and field producer for Alex Jones’s Infowars has said his work for the notorious conspiracy theorist was “nonsense” and “lies”, but he kept at it for four years in his 20s because the far-right media company’s founder was a magnetic presence and it earned him good money.

Josh Owens made those revealing remarks in an NPR interview published on Tuesday promoting his new memoir about once having been an employee of Jones and Infowars – a conversation that also detailed the hand he said he had in fabricating a video of an operative of the Islamic State (IS) terror group sneaking into the US from Mexico immediately after a beheading.

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