‘It was constant chaos’: ex-Infowars producer on life under Alex Jones

Book from Josh Owens tells of punishing work for far-right conspiracy theorist who, far from silenced, broadcasts on Donald Trump gave the rightwing media provocateurs Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens and Alex Jones a shoutout this week, calling them “Low IQs”, “stupid people”, and “LOSERS”. Jones hit back, saying Trump was “committing political suicide on purpose” and had made a deal to sabotage the midterms. America, Jones said, “is now under the control of a foreign government” and encouraged followers “to fly their flags upside down, because our nation is in distress!” Yet another crazy week in the fractured Maga mediasphere awash with extremism, lies, rants and conspiracy theories. Josh Owens, a former video editor and field producer for Jones’s Infowars, is happy to be out of it all. Owens worked for Jones for four years, from 2013 to 2017, going out on assignments to find evidence of high radiation levels in California after the Fukushima nuclear accident, to Ferguson, Missouri, to cover the BLM protests, to retrieve Cliven Bundy’s cattle in Nevada, to dine with the Nation of Islam’s Louis Farrakhan, fabricating