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Donald Trump is not welcome on The Joe Rogan Experience, says the host of the popular podcast — at least not yet. Still, Rogan, an avowed Ron DeSantis supporter, is no friend of Joe Biden's either. "By the way, I'm not a Trump supporter in any way, shape or form," Rogan said Monday during an interview on Lex Fridman's…

Alex Jones’ Infowars and two other affiliated companies have filed for bankruptcy protection, as the right-wing talk host faces potential damages to families of the victims in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre. Other companies that filed for Chapter 11 protection were IWHealth and Prison Planet TV. The filings, made in…

A Connecticut judge today ordered Infowars host Alex Jones to pay damages to the families of eight victims of the Sandy Hook school massacre, which is the deadliest elementary school shooting in U.S. history. That day, the shooter killed 26 people, including 20 kids under eight years old. Jones has repeatedly asserted…

Jimmy Kimmel returned from his summer hiatus concerned about Covid and baffled by the words and actions of InfoWars host Alex Jones. “It was not a fun Labor Day weekend Covid-wise,” said the late night host in his Jimmy Kimmel Live! monologue. “The number of new cases is up more than 300% from a year ago.” He lamented…

Facebook’s decision earlier this week to ban seven far-right figures, including “Infowars” host Alex Jones, has drawn fire from Fox News host Laura Ingraham and conservative filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza. The Death of a Nation director appeared on The Ingraham Angle, where the two discussed the social media giant’s…

Desperate for some good press, Facebook announced Thursday it had designated Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos, and other right-wing extremists as "dangerous" and would jettison them from Facebook and Instagram, which is owned by the social media giant. Playing catch-up with other platforms, Facebook added to its banned…

UPDATED to reflect Roku’s decision to pull InfoWars, 5:30 PM: Roku said it is removing Alex Jones’ InfoWars channel from the Roku Channel Store following online backlash. Months after being banned by Facebook, YouTube, Spotify and other major Internet platforms, InfoWars found new online distribution through the Roku…

PayPal has canceled the accounts of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' Infowars website, citing alleged incidents of hate speech and discriminatory content. The termination continues Jones’s recent string of hi-tech clashes. He has been canceled by numerous social media accounts for his controversial stances on such…

Twitter permanently suspended far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones from the platform, citing tweets and videos that violate the service’s ban on abusive behavior. The decision comes a day after Jones accosted Sen. Marco Rubio outside the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing yesterday, crashing the Florida…

Sen. Marco Rubio and InfoWars gadfly Alex Jones got into a verbal altercation that threatened to turn physical in an odd spectacle that unfolded in front of a cluster of reporters interviewing Rubio. Rubio, a Republican from Florida, serves on the Senate Intelligence Committee, which questioned Facebook COO Sheryl…

UPDATED to clarify that Alex Jones is not involved in the station. A pirate radio station in Texas that broadcast conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s show has dropped off the air amid an intensifying fight with the FCC. The Department of Justice filed suit against Walter and Rae Olenick, accusing them of operating an…

FCC chairman Ajit Pai today defended the agency’s decision to crack down on a pirate radio station in Texas that broadcast conservative theorist Alex Jones’ show. The agency attracted criticism, and praise, for removing the right-wing commentator from the airwaves, Pai said in testimony this morning before the…