Mainstream media outlets celebrated early this morning after popular news personality Alex Jones’s outlet Infowars filed bankruptcy ahead of Sandy Hook defamation lawsuits.
“Mr. Jones has ceded his far-right website and media company to outside administrators…” writes The Wall Street Journal.
“Infowars filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as the website’s founder and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones faces defamation lawsuits over his comments that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax,” gawked ABC News and the Associated Press.
“Right-wing conspiracy outlet Infowars files for bankruptcy protection as founder Alex Jones faces defamation suits,” a title from CNN reads.
They certainly are liberal with their labelling of Jones as “far-right” and a “conspiracy” theorist.
Jones, who has been right about a lot regarding future pandemic lockdowns and COVID, is currently facing defamation lawsuits from relatives of those gunned down in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting after he said the shooting didn’t happen.
Jones later said that the shooting did happen, but plaintiffs say they’ve been targeted, harassed, and threatened by fans of Jones’ show regardless and are seeking damages.
“And I, myself, have almost had like a form of psychosis back in the past where I basically thought everything was staged, even though I’ve now learned a lot of times things aren’t staged. So I think as a pundit, someone giving an opinion, that, you know, my opinions have been wrong, but they were never wrong consciously to hurt people,” Jones said in 2019.
Jones was also recently fined $75,000, which was later returned, for failing to appear in court, and attorney Christopher Mattei, who is representing plaintiffs in one case, says Jones has attempted to “delay the inevitable.”
“Alex Jones is just delaying the inevitable: a public trial in which he will be held accountable for his profit-driven campaign of lies against the Sandy Hook families who have brought this lawsuit,” Mattei said in a statement.
Some plaintiffs have already won defamation lawsuits against Jones, but new cases continue to be filed, including one accusing Jones of hiding millions of dollars in assets, which he says is “ridiculous.”
