"Jones was not sitting there telling us to lie about things. He was making us question our own minds. After years in that environment, you stop even believing the fire alarms that are going off in your brain saying, like, This is insane. This is crazy. This is wrong. And you think, Maybe there's something else that I'm not seeing."
"He'd been preaching his anti-establishment, paranoid worldview for eons. Over time, he slowly worked his way into national headlines, transitioning from a fringe figure to a more mainstream presence within the right wing."
Josh Owens, a former videographer for Infowars, recounts his journey from film school to working with Alex Jones. He describes the manipulative environment at Infowars, where questioning one's own beliefs became common. Owens discusses the radicalization process and the conspiratorial media ecosystem that Jones created. He reflects on how his moral compass was affected during his time there and the challenges he faced in extricating himself from that world. The conversation sheds light on the broader implications of such media on society.
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