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Alex Jones Files For Personal Bankruptcy !2 Hours After YE Says, "I Like Hitler" On His Info Wars Show. YE Kicked Off Twitter For Posting A Swastika On The Platform. .
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Greg Carr
Dec 2, 2022, 2:02:40 PM12/2/22
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Good news Alex Jones the chronic, daily, liar and Trumper filed for personal bankruptcy today.
Alex Jones files for bankruptcy following $1.5 billion Sandy Hook verdicts
By Tom Hals and Jonathan Stempel
Infowars founder Alex Jones speaks after appearing at his Sandy Hook defamation trial in Waterbury
Infowars founder Alex Jones speaks to the media after appearing at his Sandy Hook defamation trial at Connecticut Superior Court in Waterbury, Connecticut, U.S., October 4, 2022. REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo
Dec 2 (Reuters) - Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones filed for bankruptcy on Friday, after he and the parent of his Infowars website were ordered to pay about $1.5 billion for spreading lies about the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting.
Jones filed for Chapter 11 protection from creditors with the U.S. bankruptcy court in Houston, a court filing showed.
The filing said Jones has between $1 million and $10 million of assets and between $1 billion and $10 billion of liabilities. The extent of Jones' personal wealth is unclear.
Jones claimed for years that the 2012 killing of 20 students and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, was staged with actors as part of a government plot to seize Americans’ guns. He has since acknowledged the shooting occurred, but plaintiffs said Jones cashed in for years off his lies about the massacre.
"Like every other cowardly move Alex Jones has made, this bankruptcy will not work," said Chris Mattei, an attorney representing Sandy Hook families. "The American judicial system will hold Alex Jones accountable, and we will never stop working to enforce the jury’s verdict."
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Mattei said Jones had engaged in intentional and egregious attacks and the bankruptcy system would not protect him.
A lawyer for Jones did not immediately return a request for comment.
In October, a Connecticut jury said Jones and Free Speech Systems, the parent company of Infowars, should pay nearly $1 billion in damages to numerous families of victims of the Sandy Hook shooting.
The Connecticut court later ordered Jones to pay an additional $473 million in punitive damages.
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The trial was marked by weeks of anguished testimony from the families, who recounted how Jones’s lies about Sandy Hook compounded their grief.
Free Speech Systems filed for bankruptcy in July.
In a separate case in Texas, a jury in August decided Jones must pay the parents of a 6-year-old boy killed in the Sandy Hook massacre $45.2 million in punitive damages, on top of $4.1 million in compensatory damages.
Jones's lawyers have said he would appeal the Connecticut and Texas verdicts.
Bankruptcy can be used to wipe out debts, but not if they result from "willful or malicious injury" caused by the debtor. Jones's lies appear to meet that standard, said Susan Block-Lieb, a professor of bankruptcy law at Fordham University School of Law.
"Defamation is pretty clearly an intentional tort - it is especially clear in Alex Jones's case,' Block-Lieb said.
The filing also comes with risk for Jones, who will have to disclose all of his assets in court, said bankruptcy lawyer Sidney Scheinberg.
"Now that he's filed for bankruptcy, his assets are an open book," Scheinberg said. "If you hide assets in a bankruptcy case, that's a federal crime."
An economist in the Texas case estimated that Jones is personally worth between $135 million and $270 million.
The bankruptcy filing lists the plaintiffs who won verdicts against Jones as his largest unsecured creditors.
Among them are Robert Parker, father of six-year-old Emilie Parker, who was awarded $120 million by the Connecticut jury, and FBI agent William Aldenberg, who was among the first law enforcement officers on the scene of the 2012 shooting.
Connecticut judge Barbara Bellis had temporarily blocked Jones from moving any personal assets out of the country at the request of the plaintiffs, who claimed Jones was trying to hide assets to avoid paying.
The families have sued Jones in Texas state court seeking to unwind what they say are millions of dollars worth of illegitimate transfers from Jones’s company to shell entities he controls. They allege those transactions were intended to shield Jones’s assets from potential judgments.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/alex-jones-files-bankruptcy-following-sandy-hook-verdict-court-filing-2022-12-02/
Also YE was banned by Twitter 24 hours after they said they would not ban ppl for disinformation.
Kanye West Is Suspended From Twitter After Posting a Swastika
The tweet was deleted before the rapper’s account was shut down. Twitter’s chief executive, Elon Musk, said the post violated a rule against inciting violence.
Kanye West, also known as Ye, in September.
Kanye West, also known as Ye, in September. Credit...Nina Westervelt for The New York Times
John Yoon
By John Yoon
Dec. 2, 2022
Updated 9:24 a.m. ET
Elon Musk, Twitter’s chief executive, said late Thursday that Kanye West would be suspended from Twitter after the rapper and fashion designer tweeted an image of a swastika inside the Star of David. Mr. Musk said the post violated the social media outlet’s rule against the incitement of violence.
The tweet was deleted shortly before Mr. West’s account became no longer accessible. His page was soon replaced with a label: “Account suspended.”
So continued the controversy stirred by Mr. West — who goes by Ye — and his string of antisemitic remarks on social media. Instagram blocked him from posting after he suggested on the platform that Sean Combs, the rapper known as Diddy, was being controlled by Jewish people. Ye has also lashed out against Jewish people via Twitter.
The indefinite Twitter suspension happened on the same day that Ye had appeared on a podcast hosted by the Infowars conspiracy broadcaster Alex Jones, during which he told Mr. Jones, “I like Hitler.”
The swastika tweet was part of a series of posts that included praise for Balenciaga, the French luxury brand that terminated its professional relationship with Ye in October because of his antisemitic comments. Balenciaga, which had partnered with Ye on runway shows and other fashion projects, has recently faced its own controversy in the form of allegations that it condoned child exploitation.
Before his suspension, Ye had also tweeted an unflattering photograph of Mr. Musk being hosed down on a yacht.
“This is fine,” Mr. Musk tweeted in response to the image. “This is not,” he wrote in regard to the swastika post, confirming Ye’s suspension.
“He again violated our rule against incitement to violence,” Mr. Musk added. “Account will be suspended.”
Twitter had restricted the account used by Ye in October after he posted an antisemitic tweet, which Twitter also removed. Users of restricted accounts cannot post or interact on the platform, but unlike with suspensions, their past tweets that did not violate the company’s rules remain visible on the service.
After being locked out from Twitter, Ye had agreed to buy Parler, a social media outlet popular with right-wing audiences. On Thursday, the company said that it had “mutually agreed with Ye” to end his deal to buy it.
Ye’s restriction on Twitter was lifted by Oct. 29, an action that Mr. Musk said Twitter had taken before he acquired the company.
Mr. Musk has said his approach to content moderation is: “If in doubt, let the speech exist.” He has also said that Twitter would be “forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints.”
He has reinstated accounts that had been suspended for pushing misinformation, including those of former President Donald J. Trump and Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene. He has also said he would offer “amnesty” to accounts suspended by the company’s previous leadership.
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John Yoon reports from the Seoul newsroom of The Times. He previously reported for the coronavirus tracking team, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2021. He joined The Times in 2020. @johnjyoon
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/business/media/kanye-west-twitter-suspension.html
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Alex Jones files for bankruptcy following $1.5 billion Sandy Hook verdicts
By Tom Hals and Jonathan Stempel
Infowars founder Alex Jones speaks after appearing at his Sandy Hook defamation trial in Waterbury
Infowars founder Alex Jones speaks to the media after appearing at his Sandy Hook defamation trial at Connecticut Superior Court in Waterbury, Connecticut, U.S., October 4, 2022. REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo
Dec 2 (Reuters) - Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones filed for bankruptcy on Friday, after he and the parent of his Infowars website were ordered to pay about $1.5 billion for spreading lies about the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting.
Jones filed for Chapter 11 protection from creditors with the U.S. bankruptcy court in Houston, a court filing showed.
The filing said Jones has between $1 million and $10 million of assets and between $1 billion and $10 billion of liabilities. The extent of Jones' personal wealth is unclear.
Jones claimed for years that the 2012 killing of 20 students and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, was staged with actors as part of a government plot to seize Americans’ guns. He has since acknowledged the shooting occurred, but plaintiffs said Jones cashed in for years off his lies about the massacre.
"Like every other cowardly move Alex Jones has made, this bankruptcy will not work," said Chris Mattei, an attorney representing Sandy Hook families. "The American judicial system will hold Alex Jones accountable, and we will never stop working to enforce the jury’s verdict."
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Mattei said Jones had engaged in intentional and egregious attacks and the bankruptcy system would not protect him.
A lawyer for Jones did not immediately return a request for comment.
In October, a Connecticut jury said Jones and Free Speech Systems, the parent company of Infowars, should pay nearly $1 billion in damages to numerous families of victims of the Sandy Hook shooting.
The Connecticut court later ordered Jones to pay an additional $473 million in punitive damages.
Advertisement · Scroll to continue
Report an ad
The trial was marked by weeks of anguished testimony from the families, who recounted how Jones’s lies about Sandy Hook compounded their grief.
Free Speech Systems filed for bankruptcy in July.
In a separate case in Texas, a jury in August decided Jones must pay the parents of a 6-year-old boy killed in the Sandy Hook massacre $45.2 million in punitive damages, on top of $4.1 million in compensatory damages.
Jones's lawyers have said he would appeal the Connecticut and Texas verdicts.
Bankruptcy can be used to wipe out debts, but not if they result from "willful or malicious injury" caused by the debtor. Jones's lies appear to meet that standard, said Susan Block-Lieb, a professor of bankruptcy law at Fordham University School of Law.
"Defamation is pretty clearly an intentional tort - it is especially clear in Alex Jones's case,' Block-Lieb said.
The filing also comes with risk for Jones, who will have to disclose all of his assets in court, said bankruptcy lawyer Sidney Scheinberg.
"Now that he's filed for bankruptcy, his assets are an open book," Scheinberg said. "If you hide assets in a bankruptcy case, that's a federal crime."
An economist in the Texas case estimated that Jones is personally worth between $135 million and $270 million.
The bankruptcy filing lists the plaintiffs who won verdicts against Jones as his largest unsecured creditors.
Among them are Robert Parker, father of six-year-old Emilie Parker, who was awarded $120 million by the Connecticut jury, and FBI agent William Aldenberg, who was among the first law enforcement officers on the scene of the 2012 shooting.
Connecticut judge Barbara Bellis had temporarily blocked Jones from moving any personal assets out of the country at the request of the plaintiffs, who claimed Jones was trying to hide assets to avoid paying.
The families have sued Jones in Texas state court seeking to unwind what they say are millions of dollars worth of illegitimate transfers from Jones’s company to shell entities he controls. They allege those transactions were intended to shield Jones’s assets from potential judgments.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/alex-jones-files-bankruptcy-following-sandy-hook-verdict-court-filing-2022-12-02/
Also YE was banned by Twitter 24 hours after they said they would not ban ppl for disinformation.
Kanye West Is Suspended From Twitter After Posting a Swastika
The tweet was deleted before the rapper’s account was shut down. Twitter’s chief executive, Elon Musk, said the post violated a rule against inciting violence.
Kanye West, also known as Ye, in September.
Kanye West, also known as Ye, in September. Credit...Nina Westervelt for The New York Times
John Yoon
By John Yoon
Dec. 2, 2022
Updated 9:24 a.m. ET
Elon Musk, Twitter’s chief executive, said late Thursday that Kanye West would be suspended from Twitter after the rapper and fashion designer tweeted an image of a swastika inside the Star of David. Mr. Musk said the post violated the social media outlet’s rule against the incitement of violence.
The tweet was deleted shortly before Mr. West’s account became no longer accessible. His page was soon replaced with a label: “Account suspended.”
So continued the controversy stirred by Mr. West — who goes by Ye — and his string of antisemitic remarks on social media. Instagram blocked him from posting after he suggested on the platform that Sean Combs, the rapper known as Diddy, was being controlled by Jewish people. Ye has also lashed out against Jewish people via Twitter.
The indefinite Twitter suspension happened on the same day that Ye had appeared on a podcast hosted by the Infowars conspiracy broadcaster Alex Jones, during which he told Mr. Jones, “I like Hitler.”
The swastika tweet was part of a series of posts that included praise for Balenciaga, the French luxury brand that terminated its professional relationship with Ye in October because of his antisemitic comments. Balenciaga, which had partnered with Ye on runway shows and other fashion projects, has recently faced its own controversy in the form of allegations that it condoned child exploitation.
Before his suspension, Ye had also tweeted an unflattering photograph of Mr. Musk being hosed down on a yacht.
“This is fine,” Mr. Musk tweeted in response to the image. “This is not,” he wrote in regard to the swastika post, confirming Ye’s suspension.
“He again violated our rule against incitement to violence,” Mr. Musk added. “Account will be suspended.”
Twitter had restricted the account used by Ye in October after he posted an antisemitic tweet, which Twitter also removed. Users of restricted accounts cannot post or interact on the platform, but unlike with suspensions, their past tweets that did not violate the company’s rules remain visible on the service.
After being locked out from Twitter, Ye had agreed to buy Parler, a social media outlet popular with right-wing audiences. On Thursday, the company said that it had “mutually agreed with Ye” to end his deal to buy it.
Ye’s restriction on Twitter was lifted by Oct. 29, an action that Mr. Musk said Twitter had taken before he acquired the company.
Mr. Musk has said his approach to content moderation is: “If in doubt, let the speech exist.” He has also said that Twitter would be “forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints.”
He has reinstated accounts that had been suspended for pushing misinformation, including those of former President Donald J. Trump and Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene. He has also said he would offer “amnesty” to accounts suspended by the company’s previous leadership.
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Kanye West’s Posts Land Him in Trouble on Social Media
Oct. 9, 2022
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Dec. 1, 2022
John Yoon reports from the Seoul newsroom of The Times. He previously reported for the coronavirus tracking team, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2021. He joined The Times in 2020. @johnjyoon
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/business/media/kanye-west-twitter-suspension.html
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