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Today, Dan and Jordan check in to see how things are on the Alex Jones Show the day after a couple of his employees were suspended from Twitter for trying to promote a rally in the middle of a pandemic. In this installment, Alex spends most of the show building narratives about a specific science fact-checker he's mad at, and the show ends with some very good comedy bits.

==Tidbits==

*Rob Dew and [[Owen Shroyer]] kicked off Twitter for promoting protest
*Alex is pissed at social media
*Fact checker from Wuhan biolab tells children to report on their parents
*Dr Daniella Anderson, Facebook fact checker bio
*[[Hillary Clinton]] says 1984 is a manual
*Alex taunts drinking from a paper cup
*You'll get banned form sharing an AP article
*Facebook says you can't sell zinc
*Facebook hired former Stasi members
*Amaden Antonio foundation
*Aneta Kahane, former unofficial Stasi informant
*Dems hired Marcus Wolf, former head of Stasi in 2004 to run Homeland Security
*Story comes from Al Martin, wrote a book about Iran Contra, "Shocking Secrets of Iran Contra"
*I'm gonna lay it out... next segment
*Trump thinks you can't handle the truth
*Flu deaths are counted as covid deaths
*CDC isn't reporting on the flu anymore
*[[Bill Gates]] wants to run the world
*The pentagon is in awe of Alex
*Trump: FDA working with Gates foundation
*We're at war with China
*Tribulation ramble... I gotta get outa here
*Alex proves Chinese censorship
*[[Kelly Jones]] involuntary bankruptcy suit
*If [[Donald Trump|Trump]] agrees with Alex, we have to go to war... whoops, my earpiece
*Buy guns, buy water filters
*Food is money
*Ultimate smoking gun: same story, fluffed up
*Dr Anderson developed covid test kits, will make billions off of it
*SARS vs covid antibodies
*Dr Anderson hates your dad
*Alex does video commentary
*BURN IN HELL DADDY!
*Owen Shroyer joins on the desk
*Owen: War with China
*Alex wants to fight anyone who bumps into him
*Gross impression corner
*Stop breathing to beat covid
*Complaints to Twitter
*Right to free assembly
*Hang yourself to beat covid
*Owne wears a baby mask, kills Alex
*Alex puts on baby mask
*Kicking Owen off Twitter is a war crime
*InfoWars brand organic hand sanitizer spray
*Horrible gay joke
*Alex, you should put your career on the line in the wrestling ring

==Notable Bits==

*BURN IN HELL DADDY!

==References==

*Shocking Secrets of Iran Contra

==Detailed Show Notes==

Dan and Jordan discuss an episode of the Alex Jones Show that is mostly about Alex trying to make a target of a med school professor in Singapore, and rattling the sabers of war toward China.<ref>[https://knowledgefight.com/research/2020/4/20/episode-422-april-17-2020 Episode 422: April 17, 2020]</ref>

Topics covered include:

*Owen Shroyer's [https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/twitter-facilitating-promotion-infowars-hosts-rally-will-flout-texas-social recent suspension from Twitter] for promoting a rally against social distancing
*Alex's new theory that Facebook's science fact-checking is being run by one of the top scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. This is based on a misrepresentation about [https://www.duke-nus.edu.sg/directory/detail/anderson-danielle-elizabeth Dr. Danielle Anderson], who [https://healthfeedback.org/community/ contributes to an entity called Health Feedback], which is a part of [https://sciencefeedback.co/about/ Science Feedback], a group that is subcontracted by Facebook to assist with fact-checking. She teaches at Duke-NUS in Singapore, and has worked occasionally with researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in the past
*Alex claims that Hillary Clinton views 1984 as a how-to-manual. This is based on a blog post about an excerpt from her 2017 book, and [https://www.conservativereview.com/news/hillary-clinton-thinks-orwells-1984-is-a-how-to-manual/ he's just quoting the headline of that blog]
*[https://www.gilmorehealth.com/chinese-coronavirus-is-a-man-made-virus-according-to-luc-montagnier-the-man-who-discovered-hiv/ The co-discoverer of HIV has made comments] that Alex is citing as support for his positions. A lot of this is based on the retracted Indian paper about Covid-19, which has been discredited, particularly by [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7033698/ a Feb. 2020 article in Emerging Microbes and Infections]
*Alex's belief that Facebook is run by 10,000 Stasi members is based on a misrepresentation of a [https://www.dw.com/en/online-hate-speech-conspiracy-theories-boom-in-germany/a-19365690 German task force on online hate speech], which included an NGO headed by Anette Kahane, who was an unofficial informant for the Stasi for a few years when in college
*The CDC is not covering up the flu season, [https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-estimates.htm they've just ended updating their burden estimates for the season].
*[https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/31967025/Alexander_Emric_Jones Alex is being sued by his ex-wife for a lot of money], in a case that is set for trial on April 23
*Alex's water filters are [https://www.infowarsstore.com/alexapure-pro-water-filtration-system shipped by My Patriot Supply]
*[[Johns Hopkins]] keeps [https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/resources/COVID-19/serology/Serology-based-tests-for-COVID-19.html#sec5 a list of all the Covid-19 tests], one of which was developed at Duke-NUS, and [https://news.nus.edu.sg/research/duke-nus-researchers-front-line-covid-19 Dr. Anderson did assist with it]. This test they created was [https://www.duke-nus.edu.sg/docs/default-source/articles/test-for-covid-19-antibodies-a-world-first-for-singapore.pdf?sfvrsn=a8917d2b_2 designed to detect very specific antibodies], because they were developing it in a country that had been hit hard by SARS.

Also, Alex and Owen Shroyer engage in some wacky comedy bits, including Owen wearing a baby mask and pretending to kill Alex.

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