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.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    39·
    6 months ago

    “They want us shut down because in bankruptcy and what was happening we have a path with the judge to continue on for years, and the judge has signaled that. So, different groups involved in the bankruptcy that will be exposed soon have literally made a move to shut this place down and end my show,” he added.

    I know that when I’m desperate and worried that something terrible is imminent, I like to hold back a big surprise as a teaser. It helps with ratings. Even though I’m not on tv. The point is, ya gotta juice the moment.

    “I’ve been targeted for abuse. I was duped by someone. Federal files in secret have claimed that I’m committing crimes. This was untrue, of course[…]This may be my final performance.”

    Bar bar bar, blub blurb… Cry for me, Alex. Let me drink your sweet tears.

    Jones received the immediate support of MAGA Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, who posted a photo with Jones on X writing: “I stand with Alex Jones.”

    Oh, Margie. You’re such a handful. Tell ya what. Put mirrors on the roof of Allie’s studio to protect it from the Jewy Space Lasers and everything will be ok.

    I’m starting a GoFuckMe for ole’ Alex and Margie to buy some mirrors. Dig deep everyone. We gotta save this bastion of truth and freedumb.

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
      20·
      6 months ago

      Lol yeah, that shit is what made me realize he wasn’t trustworthy even as I was down the rabbit hole he made his money from. It was basically (in the conclusion of a several hour high production video), “The esoteric agenda is that the global elites want to kill off 90%+ of the world population to reduce resource usage. But don’t worry, I have a solution! Just wait for my next video and I’ll tell you all about it!”

      I watched that video a few years after it came out, so looked for that follow-up (thinking the whole time, “isn’t this a bit urgent to wait for the next video? You could just add a few minutes to this one and say it now! Though if you really have a solution and this is really going on, how are you even still alive to say all of this? Also, how are you paying for such a well-produced video?”

      Paranoia pulled me out of that rabbit hole because I concluded at the time that he was either just lying about it all, or if he was right about any of it, he was more likely hired by them to throw people off by adding in bullshit like aliens or lizard people and kill the credibility, as well as keep people who still did believe (or just filtered the obvious bullshit like I did, thinking there was still something of value left over) delayed, waiting for that “next video with the solution”.

      I had no idea at the time that the grift actually generated a lot of cash from donations and selling bullshit brain pills. Hope his empire is really coming to an end here and that this isn’t just another push for more donations (or call to violence).

        • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
          5·
          6 months ago

          Yeah, glad I came out but I don’t regret going down that rabbit hole. It was a very informative experience and made 2016 unsurprising. And it informs me the only way they’ll be deprogrammed is if they decide they want to be on their own. No amount of convictions or election losses will convince them otherwise and actually reinforce their narrative that it’s them vs a broken system.

          The fact that Alex Jones was left alone while saying all of that was itself evidence he was full of shit. That’s no longer the case for both Jones and Trump. Same can be said about Hillary, Biden, and son not facing legal “consequences”. For them, the lack of charges against any of them is because the system is broken and corrupt, not because there isn’t any case against them.

          And, of course, it doesn’t help that the system is actually broken and corrupt. It’s not in the ways they think it is, but that played a big role in my willingness to go down that rabbit hole in the first place. And when I came out, I didn’t go back to believing in the world I believed in before I went down. Shit is fucked but MAGA is being manipulated to support making it worse.

      • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
        2·
        6 months ago

        and that this isn’t just another push for more donations (or call to violence).

        It’s both. Plus a grift for more money.