Conspiracy nutcase Alex Jones and his warped Infowars website have been slapped with yet another lawsuit from a guy who was wrongly accused of being identified as the killer of a massacre.
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On February 14th, InfoWars employee Kit Daniels—also named as a defendant in the lawsuit—published a blog titled, “Reported Florida Shooter Dressed as Communist, Supported ISIS.” The blog featured a photograph of Fontaine wearing a novelty red T-shirt depicting several prominent communist figures drinking and cutting loose (a “communist party,” get it?) including Karl Marx wearing a lampshade on his head.
The image of Fontaine was captioned by the phrase: “Shooter is a commie.”
The InfoWars post at the center of Fontaine’s lawsuit has since been updated with a new headline that makes no mention of communism—“Reported Florida Shooter Discussed ‘Allahu Akbar’ on Instagram Profile”—and the photo of Fontaine has been removed. It contains neither an editor’s note nor a correction.
Of course, the killer was not Fontaine, but the InfoWars readers loved believing that he was a commie, so they shared the news. Now they may cost Alex Jones a million cool ones, and make one commie very wealthy.