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.

  • @tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
    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.

      • 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.

        • @Good_morning@lemmynsfw.com
          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