Ex-cameraman dishes on Alex Jones’ ‘conspiracy machine’ and manipulation
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For four years, Josh Owens was beside prolific MAGA podcaster Alex Jones, filming, traveling and editing video for InfoWars before he finally realized he was being manipulated by a volatile con artist.
Speaking to Charlie Warzel for the “Galaxy Brain” podcast from The Atlantic, Owens said that he doesn’t want to be absolved of his role in helping Jones spread his conspiracies. What he hopes to do with his new book is to help people understand how the lies were made.
Owens went to film school and won a contest to work for Jones. One reason he wanted to vote for Jones, Owens continued, is he grew up in a close evangelical community.
“…[T]hat was what I was raised on. And at the exact time that I was introduced to Jones, I was stepping away from that world. Jones, in a lot of ways, sort of lines up to the televangelist way of doing things. It’s all about ‘everything is motivated by fear,'” he said. “Everything is motivated by, there is this intense need to accomplish this thing in order to quite literally save the world. That’s the narrative that he spins.”
“So yeah, I mean, him being in my ear constantly was a big part of that. But also just the ideology, and the grandness of the ideology, was such an attractive concept. And I think that’s part of the reason that I decided to go there. Another part of the reason was I was trying a lot of stuff at the time. I interned a day at Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta,” he recalled.
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