{"id":70563,"date":"2026-04-01T04:05:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T09:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/ex-alex-jones-employee-reflects-on-job-at-infowars-it-was-nonsense-it-was-lies\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T04:05:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T09:05:29","slug":"ex-alex-jones-employee-reflects-on-job-at-infowars-it-was-nonsense-it-was-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/ex-alex-jones-employee-reflects-on-job-at-infowars-it-was-nonsense-it-was-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Alex Jones employee reflects on job at Infowars: \u2018It was nonsense. It was lies\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Infowars video editor and field producer spoke on his experience working on the show in an NPR interview<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A former video editor and field producer for Alex Jones\u2019s Infowars has said his work for the notorious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/oct\/14\/alex-jones-supreme-court-appeal-rejected\">conspiracy theorist<\/a> was \u201cnonsense\u201d and \u201clies\u201d, but he kept at it for four years in his 20s because the far-right media company\u2019s founder was a magnetic presence and it earned him good money.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Owens made those revealing remarks in an NPR <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/03\/31\/nx-s1-5763689\/alex-jones-infowars-josh-owens-the-madness-of-believing\">interview<\/a> published on Tuesday promoting his new memoir about once having been an employee of Jones and Infowars \u2013 a conversation that also detailed the hand he said he had in fabricating a video of an operative of the Islamic State (IS) terror group sneaking into the US from Mexico immediately after a beheading.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/01\/ex-alex-jones-employee-on-infowars-job\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Infowars video editor and field producer spoke on his experience working on the show in an NPR interview Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox A former video editor and field producer for Alex Jones\u2019s Infowars has said his work for the notorious conspiracy theorist was &#8230; <a title=\"Ex-Alex Jones employee reflects on job at Infowars: \u2018It was nonsense. It was lies\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/ex-alex-jones-employee-reflects-on-job-at-infowars-it-was-nonsense-it-was-lies\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ex-Alex Jones employee reflects on job at Infowars: \u2018It was nonsense. It was lies\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}