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26 Feb 2021
The story about 911 dispatchers not saying Ebola originated from the New York Post, not Fox DC.

So this story that Alex is opening the show with about the 911 dispatchers not being allowed to say Ebola on the radio is not from Fox DC. Fox DC did run a story about it with the headline that Alex is reading, but that article is just a link to the original story, which is from the New York Post.

26 Feb 2018
Media Matters and other critics primarily source their clips about Alex Jones from Right Wing Watch because it saves them the effort of reviewing content themselves.

And, you know, you think about the bottleneck of Alex Jones' InfoWars-related material. It generally comes from, you know, right-wing watch or Media Matters, but even Media Matters generally gets their clips from Right Wing Watch. And the reason is it fucking takes forever to go through all this bullshit, and Right Wing Watch does it for you. So Right Wing Watch puts out a video of X, Y, or Z thing that they think is interesting from Alex Jones' show. And then Media Matters or, and I'm not saying anything bad about Media Matters or Sam Cedar or any of these shows, any of these YouTube shows. They pick up the thing that Right Wing Watch put out because it's the work done for them already.

01 Feb 2017
Alex Jones uses circular sourcing, linking to his own videos rather than independent evidence.

So I went and I checked out that article, and the only link as a source that they have is a hot-linked piece of text that is like, the Chinese are buying up Hollywood studios. I clicked on that. It goes to another Infowars page that is just a video clip of Alex saying that. So, that's their sourcing.