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At Long Last, InfoWars Is Ours By Bryce P. Tetraeder, CEO, Global Tetrahedron

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That guy who died at January 6th tased himself in the balls, I don't care what Snopes says. Never helped me before.

Sure, fuck it. Why not, who cares? Free pass on this one from me.

Tweet stating: "Former NYC Mayor Eric Adams is now officially Albanian." Adams is wearing a hat with an Albanian seal and looks ridiculous.

A meme. First panel, "Me trying to explain to my alien that he's not albanian:" Photo shows a frustrated woman at the end of her patience. Second panel, "My alien:" The alien is wearing a hat with an Albanian seal and looks ridiculous.

He did the meme.

Screenshot of the title page of a journal article in Information, Communication & Society by Ross Dahlke and coauthors. The article is titled “Style and substance on The Alex Jones Show predict InfoWars sales: a multi-modal analysis of a media empire.” The abstract explains that the study combines daily InfoWars sales data from 2016 to 2018 with linguistic, auditory, and topical features from Alex Jones’s radio show and online articles, finding that some styles and topics predict next-day sales.

Image description Line chart showing daily InfoWars sales in dollars from January 2016 through December 2018. Sales are highly volatile, with frequent spikes, but generally rise from relatively low levels in early 2016 to a higher and more sustained range through 2017 and 2018, often around $100,000 to $300,000 per day, with occasional peaks approaching $1 million.

Image description Multi-panel figure showing daily trends in selected themes and styles in Alex Jones radio shows and InfoWars news articles from 2016 to 2018. The left column tracks radio show content including Power, Bio, Achieve, Focus Future, and Money; the right column tracks article content including Power, Achieve, Money, Anger, and Focus Future. Gray daily values are overlaid with smoothed trend lines, showing that some themes shift gradually over time while others remain fairly stable.

Image description Multi-panel figure showing daily trends in major topics in Alex Jones radio shows and InfoWars news articles from 2016 to 2018. Radio show panels include Nationalism, Politicians, Show Slogans, Promotions, and Fake News; article panels include Trump, Scientific Discoveries and Controversies, Media and Politics, Attacking Democrats, and Global Conflicts. Smoothed trend lines show modest but noticeable changes over time, including persistent attention to Trump and politics in articles and nationalism and political messaging in radio content.

New from me, @yunkangyang.bsky.social @jolukito.bsky.social @jasong.bsky.social @m-dot-brown.bsky.social @beccalew.bsky.social: analyzing sales data released from InfoWar's court case, we find that certain styles (linguistic and auditory) used by Alex Jones on his radio show predict next-day sales

Kat.

I wrote about Kat.

it gets worse

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Hey Bill, do you happen to know the name of the firm representing him?

I’d certainly be interested in talking to that student.

He would be the fourth person I’ve represented who was falsely smeared as a mass murderer by a rightwing misinfo campaign.

I’m getting pretty good at it.

I’d certainly be interested in talking to that student.

He would be the fourth person I’ve represented who was falsely smeared as a mass murderer by a rightwing misinfo campaign.

I’m getting pretty good at it.

Today my law firm secured a quarter-billion dollar verdict in New Mexico against Michelin for defects in their tires that threaten all of our lives on the roadway, and I don’t think you’ll see a single news story about it. Corporate malfeasance thrives in the shadows.

Streaming Justice – When Courtrooms Go Live YouTube video by ABOTA Speaks

My partner Kyle Farrar and I spoke to ABOTA about the benefits and challenges of live-streaming the Alex Jones trial. It was a great conversation along with David Siegel of Courtroom View Network:

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In addition to being in the process of losing his business, this man has also lost his juice.

I look forward to providing more updates soon. I strongly believe that PACs should not be able to harvest information through deception, and this may be the most egregious example of that conduct in American history.

Whether Musk’s statement falsely or accurately described the way the $1 million recipients were selected will be elucidated through discovery. For now, Plaintiff has plausibly alleged a false representation.

Since the case is going forward, the court noted that Musk will soon be subject to discovery regarding AmericaPAC’s activities:

Plaintiff has plausibly alleged that Defendants breached a contract when they did not give her a random chance to win $1 million after she signed the Petition and gave Defendants her PII. Accordingly, the Court also denies Defendants’ motion to dismiss Plaintiff’s breach of contract claim.

The court summarized the plaintiff's cause of action as follows:

Defendants argue that Plaintiff has not properly alleged three of those elements. They first contend that Plaintiff has not pled a plausible false representation because, in Defendants’ view, the PAC’s decision to “pre-determine” recipients is consistent with the notion that the recipients were selected “randomly.” (Mot., Dkt. 5, at 16–17). Defendants’ argument on this ground is wholly unpersuasive. As Defendants themselves point out, a common definition for “randomly” is “lacking a definite plan, purpose, or pattern.” (Id. at 16 (citing Random Definition, Merriam-Webster.com, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/randomly)). If Defendants pre-determined the $1 million recipients based on their personal stories rather than chance, as Plaintiff has alleged, then the recipients were obviously not chosen in a way that “lack[ed] a definite plan, purpose, or pattern.”

Musk’s attorneys attempted to argue that the use of pre-selected winners was actually consistent with Musk’s pledge of a “random” giveaway. The court found this argument “wholly unpersuasive.”

In this case, the Court need not rely on common sense to understand that Defendants found Plaintiff’s PII valuable because Defendants themselves created a market for Plaintiff’s PII. Aside from the $1 million award, the Petition encouraged those who signed the Petition to refer others to sign it and offered $47 “for each registered voter referred who signed the [P]etition.” (Compl., Dkt. 1, ¶ 10). This offer suggests that Defendants themselves believed that every eligible voter’s PII was worth at least $47 because that was the amount Defendants were willing to pay to obtain it. It is disingenuous for Defendants to argue that Plaintiff’s PII has no value when Defendants went through so much effort—two monetary programs, multiple town halls, several social media posts—to acquire it. Plaintiff has sufficiently alleged that Defendants valued the PII and that she lost that value by giving Defendants her PII without getting what she bargained for in return—a random chance to win $1 million.

As the judge explained in yesterday’s order, the value of that data secured from one million signers of the petition amounts to at least $47 million.

Musk and AmericaPAC used this false promise to harvest the contact information of a million swing state voters weeks before an election. That kind of data has value, and it was secured through fraud.

These cases were brought because Musk, through AmericaPAC, made false promises of a random daily giveaway of $1 million to any swing-state voter who signed his petition. But in reality, the winners were pre-selected. It was a scam.

9 months later, and I’m happy to report that Musk’s attempt to dismiss this class-action has failed. Let me give you some updates… 🧵

The world has been pretty dark but I just wanted you to know that every now and then the dark news will be interrupted by a picture of your lads in their little outfits or whatever and it honestly does make it a little better.

My dumb ass at 19 signing my first predatory loan.

Alex Jones' Infowars Can Be Sold To Pay Sandy Hook Families, Judge Rules A judge ruled that Jones can sell Infowars' assets, including studio cameras and the brand name, to help pay the $1 billion he owes to the Sandy Hook families.

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I’m seeing so much conflicting info on this. I’ve seen posts saying the hoax profile stole its profile pic from some nice lady named Hope who has uploaded videos of her in tears saying it’s her pic but not her account. Picking apart disinformation is growing exponentially harder.

You seem to be a highly unpleasant individual so I’m going to stop talking to you now.

You might not want to come in my replies and call my followers stupid when you weren’t even capable of reading my tweets and screenshots which make quite clear that Cindy Steinberg did not say any of the things being claimed. It was a Nazi hoax. And you fell for it. And then you didn’t even read.

If I could define my disdain for mainstream media in one way it would be this: no one gets smarter or more informed about policy/history/procedures from watching CNN. If you forced someone to watch CNN cover a bill for a month, 99% of viewers wouldn't be able to answer basic questions about the bill

Smart move by Newsom. 1) Fox is vulnerable after the Dominion settlement and he chose the right number. 2) with Trump, Musk & the bad faith right weaponizing defamation and libel laws to attack their critics, it’s time liberals and leftists fight (legal) fire with fire. Sue ‘em.