for a whole lot less. alex jones lost in court this week, but the conspiracy culture he symbolizes is winning. the effort to hold jones accountable for his lies about the sandy hook massacre is just getting started. he has other trials that he faces for damages. this is going to go on for months and years. but the jury s decision on friday that jones should face p punitive damages to the tune of $45 million, it was a reckoning that was ten years in the making. my next guests were in the courtroom for part of the trial to witness it firsthand. they spent five of their years of their lives dedicated to covering jones, skewering jones, and his infowars web site. dan and jordan launched the
of it across the web, is that fair? umm, i think i would argue that the conspiracy culture is something that is, you know, created through the cracks of our irregular society. it s not built from conspiracy outwards to racism and violence and all of that stuff. it s the desire for racism and the like that leads to conspiracy. that kind of situation. that s a really interesting way to put it. so yes, it s gotten a lot bigger. and dan, with that in mind, how do you all approach knowledge? this is now tell me if you re wrong, this is a full-time job. you have made a career out of scrutinizing and skewering alex jones. yeah. umm, i mean, we approach it with the, you know, the understanding that it s a serious topic, but also that in order to make it interesting for anybody to hn to, you have to make it make
Writer Kelly Weill spends her days reporting on far-right conspiracy theories, but it was a very old one about the Earth being flat that really grabbed her attention. 'I thought they must be joking. But it was serious'