The news service's host claimed that federal authorities were going to shut down his studios in Austin, Texas, on Friday night.

In what he described as an “emergency broadcast” on Saturday, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones claimed that his far-right news company, Infowars’, studios in Austin, Texas, might be shut down by federal authorities soon.

“This is going to be Infowars’ last show, because I learned yesterday that they were going to padlock the door and kick us out last night,” Jones said while on Infowars on Saturday.

On the same day, Friday, May 31, the news outlet published an article saying it might be shut down in 48 hours.

Newsweek contacted Infowars by email on Sunday morning for comment and any evidence of the alleged attempt to shut down the company’s studios.

Jones said that he spotted “guards looking at me weird” at the entrance of the Infowars building and believed that his company was going to be shut down.

Basically, the entire studio has been repossessed, has guards around the perimeter.

You can currently find clips of him breaking down and crying on twitter, and the whole broadcast is viewable on rumble, but I don’t have an x account nor am I going to post a rumble link.

He played out the end of the broadcast with, of course, ‘My Way’ by Sinatra.

  • @[email protected]
    83•6 months ago

    It’s worth noting that almost every episode he broadcasts contains “emergency broadcast”. And he’s made claims that he’s about to be arrested/assassinated/disappeared/shut down for well over 20 years at this point.

    Looking forward to the next ep of KnowledgeFight, though.

    EDIT: Sweet, new ep or KF is out!

    EDIT 2: Hoboy, this is a wild one. Even those who normally don’t listen to Knowledge Fight should check this one out (episode #930).

    • @PolydoreSmith
      22•6 months ago

      Yeah he does an emergency broadcast at least once a fuckin month. Just like Trump raised over 38 mil after his convictions. It’s all a con job. To take a page from Knowledge Fight, the media really needs to learn how to cover ol’ AJ.

      • @[email protected]
        8•6 months ago

        Trump claimed to raise 34, 38 or 52 millions after the conviction. Stop taking his word for anything.

      • @mPony
        6•6 months ago

        Trump raised over 38 mil

        Ya know, I just don’t believe that claim. Not in the slightest. Why on earth would anyone take anything he or his people say at face value?

      • @[email protected]
        5•6 months ago

        But instead the media behaves like nothing was learned during the 2016 campaign. Who would’ve thunk: Clicks, ratings, Oxford comma, and ad revenue are all more important than ethical and non-destructive coverage. And I only agree with one of those.

        • @Agrivar
          4•6 months ago

          It’s the Oxford comma, right?

          Right?

        • @afraid_of_zombies
          1•6 months ago

          I will be cold dead in the ground before I tolerate the Oxford comma. It is not needed and useless and breakups up sentence flow.

          • DiploRaucous
            2•6 months ago

            Ok, however - If I said “I live with my parents, Bob and Midge.”

            How many people are in my house?

            How about “I live with my parents, Bob, and Midge”?

            I’d say there’s a specific and important distinction made by using the extra comma.

    • @[email protected]
      14•6 months ago

      Gotta love a 3.5+ hr podcast. Sounds like the time the Some More News folks did a “brief” look at Jordan Peterson for 3 hours. Good thing I commute 2 hrs a day and listen at 2.5 speed.

      I don’t really understand how channels like these crank out so much content. I wrote a lot of essays in college but I think producing 20000 words every week would just about kill me.

      • @rayyy
        -9•6 months ago

        3.5+ hr podcast

        The trick to brainwashing is repetition and attention capture.

        • body_by_make
          25•6 months ago

          Knowledge Fight thoroughly breaks down Alex Jones’ arguments, he says a lot of bullshit so it takes a lot of time. Also they’re comedians and it’s pretty entertaining.

          Literally the reason the episodes are so long is because of the constant stream of bullshit Alex Jones spews.

          • @[email protected]
            5•6 months ago

            Ohh, I’m so out of the loop I thought knowledge fight was the title of Alex Jones podcast and was wondering what strange corner of Lemmy I stumbled into.

            • body_by_make
              10•6 months ago

              That’s Info Wars, that’s a fair thing to think if you don’t watch Alex Jones much, the title of the Knowledge Fight podcast was intentionally chosen to parody it

    • Todd Bonzalez
      4•6 months ago

      Yeah, doing this right after the Trump conviction just sounds like he’s trying to tap into the RW base’s persecuting complex right now.

      • @[email protected]
        2•6 months ago

        He’s been doing that too for years. His rhetoric is very similar to that of Trump in that he claims to be the last bastion of defense against woke commie transgenders. "Support me by buying my crap, and you help me help you against this tyranny "

    • @AreldybEnglish
      1•6 months ago

      3 hours 45 minutes, oh baby