Following his trial for defamation of the families of the children and school staff killed in the Sandy Hook massacre, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is using Valve Corp.’s Steam, the world’s largest digital distribution platform for PC games, to sell an Infowars-themed video game. Jones claims to have earned hundreds of thousands in revenue from the video game, yet he has refused to pay the Sandy Hook families. Alex Jones: NWO Wars also mirrors and cartoonishly repackages the conspiracy theorist’s regularly violent, hateful rhetoric despite the platform’s policies against hate speech.

    • Ook the Librarian@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      The short answer is no. I can’t think of when tried a pizzagate debunking. (They are going on 900 episodes.) I do distinctly remember an early episode when they analyze an undercover Periscope video inside Comet Ping Pong.

      For a hopefully longer, but slower, answer, I made a thread asking the small community on lemmy.world.

      • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        I don’t believe Pizzagate was ever bunked, or debunked. The problem is that there are so many claims made that a rigorous debunk is difficult and time consuming.

        The best attempt was NY Times that covered some details but cherry picked the claims it could debunk and completely ignored others.

        Rolling Stones made a feeble effort spending most of the article on how the story spread, not it’s veracity.