Hallucinations and visions

Reader Blind: If he keeps taking those chemicals that a doctor says are supplements but instead are HGH and testosterone, mixed with some other even more unsafe toxins, this controversial talk show host will be the next one to die.

The hallucinations and visions would probably go away too once he goes cold turkey.

Alex Jones

Alex Jones Still Sells Supplements On Amazon Despite Bans From Other Platforms

The far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been banned from Facebook, Apple, YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, Spotify and even PayPal for violating those sites’ policies against hate speech. But Jones continues to have a platform to sell expensive dietary supplements through one of the world’s biggest online retailers: Amazon.

Just as Amazon provides massive third-party sellers — such as Starbucks, Coca-Cola or Apple — with their own online storefronts, Jones’ Infowars Store has a home on the site, too. There, he sells products such as “Super Male Vitality” drops, “Lung Cleanse Plus Spray” and “Prostaguard” pills.

“Thank you for supporting the Infowar!” the storefront states above its listings, suggesting that Jones is not just selling supplements but providing a path for consumers to fund his extremist causes. Meanwhile, Amazon provides support to Jones and gets a percentage of all the sales — called a “referral fee” — as it does with all third-party sellers. For supplements priced over $10, the referral fee is 15%.

Neither Amazon nor Jones responded to NPR’s requests for comment.

One of the only other major sites to provide Jones with a platform is eBay. “Your purchase directly supports Alex Jones and his Infowars operations,” the eBay storefront states above a similar group of Infowars dietary supplements. However, eBay is a small fraction of the size of Amazon, and brought in a little more than $10 billion in revenue in 2020, compared with Amazon’s $386 billion. NPR also contacted eBay for comment but did not receive a response.

Jones is known, in the words of the Anti-Defamation League, for “spreading violent, bigoted conspiracy theories,” which is what led several tech platforms to ban him years ago. Among the theories he pushed: the baseless idea that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012, which killed 26 people, including 20 young children, was a “hoax.” Afterward, families of the slain children said they experienced waves of harassment that have lasted for years. Jones later stated in a deposition that he was experiencing “like a form of psychosis” at the time and said that “my opinions have been wrong, but they were never wrong consciously to hurt people.” – Source