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Mon Feb 13, 2017, 08:27 AM Feb 2017

The War Inside InfoWars

The conspiracy hub has become a clubhouse for Trump fanboys—and a former employee is crying foul.

GIDEON RESNICK
02.13.17 1:00 AM ET

Depending on who you talk to, Kurt Nimmo, a former editor for InfoWars, left the conspiracy-peddling website after being a demonstrably lazy staffer—or he was fired in a sudden and acrimonious manner by the site’s red-faced majordomo, Alex Jones.

But the real story, whatever it is, is only slightly less muddy than the fever swamps through which its writers trudge each day to deliver stories about Lady Gaga’s satanic Super Bowl performance and the imminent assassination of President Donald Trump.

Nimmo told The Daily Beast this week that he joined InfoWars in 2008 and “rebuilt the website.” He left the publication in July 2016, and has since been working for NewsBud, a site run by the conspiratorially minded whistleblower Sibel Edmonds. Nimmo also periodically writes for his own blog entitled “Another Day in the Empire.”

Since his exit, Nimmo has noticed the general framework and voice of the site shift into becoming essentially a pro-Trump propaganda outfit—something which he perceives as an abandonment of InfoWars’s initial focus on the “New World Order,” or as Jones would call it, the establishment.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/02/13/the-war-inside-infowars.html

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The War Inside InfoWars (Original Post) rug Feb 2017 OP
So it's Nazi crazies versus regular crazies? Nt Tommy_Carcetti Feb 2017 #1
SA versus SS. rug Feb 2017 #2
Well, you have to switch up focus once the New World Order arrives, don'tcha? SticksnStones Feb 2017 #3
Sibel Edmonds has always been a fraud! Vinnie From Indy Feb 2017 #4

SticksnStones

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3. Well, you have to switch up focus once the New World Order arrives, don'tcha?
Mon Feb 13, 2017, 08:43 AM
Feb 2017
What's the problem here, boys? Not enough chaos for you yet?

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