In today’s world of alternative media, Infowars has long been one of the biggest and most powerful outlets in the United States.
Piloted by the bombastic and often quarrelsome Alex Jones, the site has been pushed out of the mainstream web over the course of the last several months, with internet overlords citing their belief that Jones and crew were fueling dangerous conspiracy theories that spread fear onto unsuspecting readers.
Now, Jones is pushing for President Trump’s reelection during this tumultuous time, a number of Infowars contributors are abandoning ship, including Jones’ own son.
The most visible sign of internal tumult came on Dec. 17, when Jones fired longtime InfoWars host and conspiracy theorist David Knight.
“I was just fired by Alex effective immediately,” Knight, the rare InfoWars host to not already be banned by Twitter, tweeted shortly after his ouster.
Knight and InfoWars didn’t respond to requests for comment.
But it doesn’t end there…
But Knight isn’t the only one-time InfoWars personality to get the boot. InfoWars also appears to have cut its evening show, which featured QAnon conspiracy theorist DeAnna Lorraine Tesoriero, a decision Knight claimed was prompted by the InfoWars show getting crushed on a nightly basis by Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show. InfoWars also appears to have stopped sponsoring conservative personality Kaitlin Bennett, the so-called “gun girl” whose job consisted primarily of baiting liberal college students into viral-ready exchanges.
Even Jones’ teenage son, Rex Jones, has quit the site, complaining in an appearance on a right-wing internet show last week that InfoWars had failed to develop his talent and squelched his own attacks on Trump.
“I have a lot of views on Trump that they didn’t like, and they didn’t want me to talk about some stuff,” the younger Jones said. “They didn’t want me to criticize him.”
Could this mean the end of the longtime fringe media host?
