they knew he was planning to attack the school. but it s another dramatic courtroom moment that could have implications beyond the civil lawsuits. your attorneys messed up in s and sent me an entire digital copy of your entire cell phone with every text message you ve sent for the past two years, and that is how i know you lied to me when you said you didn t have text messages about sandy hook. bankstonton says the januaryh committee wants to see those texts from alex jones. despite the pressure, the lawsuits, even after losing millions, jones was on his website, pushing conspiracy and begging for money. but if you don t fund us, if you don t buy products at infowarsstore.com, we will shut down. i want people to know that alex will not stop. this is what people have to understand about alex. will his behavior stay the same? absolutely.
the capitol. let s go take our country back! let s start marching to the capitol! when he arrived, it was chaos. trump supporters were in hand-to-hand combat with police. let s march around to the other side and let s not fight the police and give the system what they want. we are peaceful. the west side was anything but peaceful, as jones was leading a crowd to the other side, the capitol was breached. jones arrived on the capitol s east side, climbs steps packed with rioters and called for peace, but also revolution. [ chanting: 1776 ] jones sees it all and takes off. [ chanting: fight for trump ] just minutes after jones left, a mob trying to force the
you play it up as much as you possibly can, as extreme as possible, in the most dramatic way. cnn spoke in-depth to those who have followed jones rise and those who have worked with him. film maker kaylin robertson appeared repeatedly on jones show, made a documentary with him, before realizing it was all a sham. i felt like i was doing the right thing. i felt like i was on the side of truth. robert jacobson worked at infowars for 17 years and finally had enough. he will just lie. straight-up lie, like nothing s going on. like it s real. and the issue with that is, a lot of people believe him. josh owens spent four years editing and producing at infowars. people always ask me, does jones believe the things that he says? i don t know if it matters if he believes the things that he says, because the people who listen to him believe the things he says. the elites are killing little kids, drinking blood, torturing people. every one of those thought
and with the growing popularity of social media, jones finally had the outlet that would be a perfect amplifier for his outrage. a lot of his clips would go viral. alex jones used platforms like facebook, like twitter, like youtube to draw people in. they would promote and amplify the kind of content that gets people most engaged. he knew if he made videos that were more extreme, more shout you, youtube would give it to people who weren t looking for them. and around 80% of their views were from youtube recommendations were for people who weren t looking for his content. a huge amount of infowars success is the algorithms. court documents shows infowars audience nearly doubled in four years. he wants to give people what they came there to get. true or not? true or not. when there was a mass shooting, there was a definite, get everything you can to try to prove that it was a false
wanted. trump never came back on infowars, but it didn t matter. money was rolling in. jones appeared invincible. the truth is, my average video was getting 3 to 4 million views. but behind the scenes, something had changed. zplif to say, i wish i had never met trump. social media companies had begun taking tougher stances on hate speech. they decided to de-platform my billions and billions of views and millions of followers, off of everything from itunes to google to youtube to spotify. jones would blame the scrutiny of infowars on his license plate with trump. caylen robinson captured these candid moments while making a documentary with jones and shared them with cnn. i m so sick of [ muted ] donald trump, man. god, i m [ muted ] sick of him. but i m not doing this because i m kissing his [ muted ] ass, you know. jones struggled with his words, asked for a retake. yeah, uh, huh this is the