A trio of lawsuits, all filed in the last few weeks, could spell the end for Infowars host and alt-right media titan Alex Jones.
And that has many Jones fans wondering if it’s a coordinated attack intended to silence him.
Jones faces two defamation lawsuits from people named in Infowars reports, as well as a bizarre accusation of sexual abuse from a former employee.
On April 2 Jones was hit with a defamation suit by 24-year-old Boston man Marcel Fontaine, who Infowars and others falsely identified as the Parkland, Florida school shooter in the hours after the Feb. 14 massacre.
A photograph of Fontaine, wearing a comedy “Communist Party” t-shirt depicting Communist figures with party cups and hats, was circulated by Infowars, identifying him as Nikolas Cruz. The photo of Fontaine was used to advance the claim the shooter was a politically active left-wing activist.
Fontaine has no connections to the massacre and has never been to Florida.
Fontaine is suing Jones, Infowars, Jones’ company Free Speech Systems and author Kit Daniels in an Austin, Texas federal court, claiming he was subjected to harassment and death threats by readers who still felt he was the killer.
While the photograph was discovered on Reddit, the Infowars article claiming it was of Cruz spread it to millions, even after it was established he had no involvement, the suit claims.
Fontaine still “genuinely fears for his safety” at the hands of people who still believe he was involved in the massacre.
“Mr. Fontaine continues to suffer harassment and peril even from individuals aware of his identity as a Massachusetts resident,” the suit claims.
That defamation suit comes just weeks after a participant in last August’s liberal counter protests in Charlottesville, Virginia sued Jones for falsely accusing him of being a CIA “plant” who staged the events that led to the death of a young woman.
Brennan Gilmore was videotaping the counter-protesters with his phone when James Alex Fields Jr. drove his car into the crowd. Gilmore posted the video on Twitter and began speaking to the media.
When Infowars learned Gilmore was a State Department employee, Infowars and other sites ran articles accusing him of being a “Deep State” figure who “set up” Fields.
Gilmore is suing Jones, Infowars, Free Speech Systems, former erotic photographer turned Russian government reporter Lee Stranahan; Infowars reporter Lee Ann McAdoo; Gateway Pundit publisher Jim Hoft; former U.S. Congressman Allen B. West; and bloggers Scott Creighton and Derrick Wilburn.
But neither of those suits are as strange, or unbelievable, as one filed by former Infowars employee Rob Jacobson.
According to the lawsuit filed in March, Jacobson claimed he felt Jones “was grooming me for homosexual sex.”
Jacobson, who worked for Jones for 13 years, claims he was subjected to abuse and sexual harassment after accidentally clicking on gay pornography. He tells The Daily Mail:
Work on Alex’s films included finding embarrassing pictures of politicians on the internet, and I was searching through pictures of the Clintons caught making funny or embarrassing faces on camera, and I noticed a unique one of Hillary Clinton that I’ve never seen before.
Alex was walking by, and it was a “look what I’ve found” moment, I invited him to check it out.
But when I clicked on this picture to see the full resolution image, a gay porn website popped up; it was a click-bait picture.
I was shocked and embarrassed, but Alex knew what had happened, so I quickly clicked off, but he instantly jumped on it and called me “Beefcake.”
That afternoon he continued calling me Beefcake, the next day it was Beefcake, I thought it would maybe go away, like sort of childish behavior, office banter, but it didn’t.
In a complaint filed with the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission, Jacobson claims “I felt like this was intimidating and harassing and a form of sexual harassment in that he was grooming me for homosexual sex.”
Jacobson, who is Jewish, also claims he was mocked for his religion and a black, female, employee was groped and subjected to racial abuse.
The three suits, all filed within weeks of each other, came as YouTube sought to terminate Infowars’ popular account, sparking speculation among Jones’ followers it is a coordinated attack.
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