Zeynep on what might be done to prevent more Alex Joneses ..
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... the key issue is, the current media ecology makes it lucrative to lie outrageously.
The extent of Alex Jones’s wealth is opaque, but a forensic economist who testified during Jones’s Texas trial estimated that his net worth, combined with that of Free Speech Systems (the parent company of his Infowars media network), is between $135 and $270 million. Jones put Free Speech Systems into Chapter 11 bankruptcy in August; the Sandy Hook families have challenged the legitimacy of that bankruptcy in court.
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