LONDON: A former video editor and field producer at Infowars has described his work for Alex Jones’s outlet as full of “lies” and “nonsense,” calling it a conspiracy theory machine with little regard for the truth.
Josh Owens — who said he stayed in the job for four years because of Jones’s magnetic presence and the money — made the remarks in an NPR interview broadcast on Tuesday, timed to promote his new memoir about his time at the right-wing media outlet.
“In Jones’s world, it was all about making things look cinematic,” Owens said. “We would go out there, we would shoot videos and almost like Vice News — like, we were in the weeds, we were showing what was really going on ... But it was nonsense, it was lies.”
Owens recalled being sent to El Paso, Texas, after a conservative website alleged that Daesh had established a training base just across the Mexican border.
Finding no evidence of any such camp, he said the Infowars team dressed a reporter to look like a Daesh operative and filmed him crossing “a little stream that looked like it could be the Rio Grande” — the river that forms the border with Mexico — while holding a prop severed head.
