Goodbye to Alex Jones’s Infowars, the Darkest Product of Austin’s Weirdness

Infowars’ time as the mouthpiece of Austin far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is, pending a final review in the same courtroom in which he lost his first defamation lawsuit, coming to an end. It’s the culmination of a journey toward oblivion that began more than a decade ago, when Jones insisted on the air that the Sandy Hook school shooting in which 26 people, mostly small children, were murdered was a hoax. The shooting did occur, of course. Twenty of the victims were kindergarteners, whose parents arrived at the school the day of the massacre unsure if their kids were among those slaughtered; they waited in a staging area as other parents were told where they could claim their children until they learned there were no…

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