Following his trial for defamation of the families of the children and school staff killed in the Sandy Hook massacre, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is using Valve Corp.’s Steam, the world’s largest digital distribution platform for PC games, to sell an Infowars-themed video game. Jones claims to have earned hundreds of thousands in revenue from the video game, yet he has refused to pay the Sandy Hook families. Alex Jones: NWO Wars also mirrors and cartoonishly repackages the conspiracy theorist’s regularly violent, hateful rhetoric despite the platform’s policies against hate speech.

Following his trial for defamation of the families of the children and school staff killed in the Sandy Hook massacre, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is using Valve Corp.’s Steam, the world’s largest digital distribution platform for PC games, to sell an Infowars-themed video game. Jones claims to have earned hundreds of thousands in revenue from the video game, yet he has refused to pay the Sandy Hook families. Alex Jones: NWO Wars also mirrors and cartoonishly repackages the conspiracy theorist’s regularly violent, hateful rhetoric despite the platform’s policies against hate speech.

  • Carlo@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    Just wanted to drop a rec for Oh No, Ross and Carrie! It’s a long-running podcast where the hosts go undercover to investigate all sorts of fringe theories, cults, alternative medicines, etc. They’re very professional; highly recommend it.

    • Ook the Librarian@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      I love that show. Although I’m admittedly a lapsed fan, I was listening to them on my walks to grad school in 2013 or so.

      Incidentally, I love looking for Ross Blocher’s name in Pixar credits.

      So digging way back in the memory machine, I can even remember hearing Carrie on the inKredulous podcast #014 from 2012. I think that might be when I started listening to her and Ross’s show.

      That show was from what I consider the glorious lo-fi days of podcasting. I’m not even going to listen back to it to see if it holds up before posting.

      • Carlo@lemmy.ca
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        10 months ago

        That is a blast from the past! I actually didn’t start listening to ONRAC regularly until pretty recently—although it feels like longer, since I’ve been hearing their promos on other Maxfun shows for years. Circa late 2016-2020, I had a pretty strict embargo on any entertainment that made me dwell on how god-awful things were–or just seemed like it might—so it took me a good long while to get around to listening.