This was never about false statements. This was never about the families, frankly. They were simply the tool by which they could try to shame the Infowars audience into silencing Infowars and selling.

This is what Alex is grandstanding about suing the Associated Press about earlier in the episode, which is never going to fly, and Barnes fucking knows that. This is a publicity stunt, and you can tell because there's a clear problem that is real, and they're attacking the straw man. The problem is super easy to resolve. All you have to do is contact Market Watch, and if they refuse to correct it, then you sue them. If all you do is focus on the Associated Press, you're not interested in the correction. You're not interested in the real problem. You're interested in pretending that the largest news outlet in the United States is slandering you. And the real reason to do that is to elevate and exaggerate your own victimhood.