Ex-Alex Jones employee reflects on job at Infowars: ‘It was nonsense. It was lies’
The Guardian • • nation
Key Points:
- Josh Owens, a former video editor and field producer for Alex Jones’s Infowars, described his work there as “nonsense” and “lies,” but stayed for four years due to Jones’s magnetic personality and good pay.
- Owens revealed fabricating a fake video showing an alleged Islamic State operative crossing the US-Mexico border with a severed head prop, which was widely viewed despite being entirely staged.
- Owens expressed regret over his role in spreading Islamophobic content and said a personal encounter on a flight made him reconsider his views, though he acknowledged it was a gradual process.
- Leaving Infowars was difficult for Owens due to the stigma attached to working for Jones, who warned employees they would be blacklisted outside the organization.
- Owens’s memoir and his interview coincide with his appearance in the HBO documentary The Truth vs Alex Jones, and he was deposed in the Sandy Hook defamation lawsuit that resulted in a $1.4 billion penalty against Jones.
