Former Alex Jones employee says: 'It was nonsense, it was lies'
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A former Infowars employee alleges Alex Jones' operation was built on fabrication designed to look cinematic rather than report truth.
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Josh Owens, a former video editor and field producer who spent four years at Alex Jones' Infowars media company, is publicly alleging that the operation was built on fabrication, saying "it was all about making things look cinematic" rather than reporting truth. Owens worked on the production side of the conspiracy-theory outlet before departing. He has documented his account in a memoir titled *The Madness of Believing*.
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