The ex-Infowars employee said he was laughed at when he warned staff to stop publishing false information about the Sandy Hook school shooting.
In a video deposition played for jurors Friday during Alex Jones' defamation trial, a formerInfowars employee recalled how he felt when the Sandy Hook shooting was broadcasted.
Even though he wasn't involved in the Sandy Hook lies, he feltlicit. The outlet's writers and staff were told that they were violating journalistic ethics, according to him.
When Sandy Hook came on the screen, I would make it my business to go in to the writers and explain to them what ethics are and why they are violating them.
He said that he had been in that room four to five times and only to be laughed at.
Alex Jones personally hired Jacobson to work at the outlet. Jones didn't show up in court.
A jury will soon decide how much Jones must pay to the parents of Jesse Lewis, the 6-year-old boy who was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. The shooting was fake for a long time. That wasn't it.
Friday was the first time the footage was made public after it was first reported by HuffPost.
The former video producer was a bit jittery in the beginning. As he speaks, he becomes more animated, and at times loud, as he describes his disgust with the place he worked for.
He said it was one thing to make a mistake. It is something else to have it pointed out to you multiple times and to hear the damage that you are doing to people outside of your zone.
Jurors watched a second video deposition featuring Dan Bidondi, a former Infowars correspondent who harassed officials at a board of education meeting.
According to the video, Bidondi was inspired to work for Alex Jones because of the 9/11 coverage.
He used a racial slur for Muslims and said he doesn't believe jet fuel can melt steel beams.
The article was first published on HuffPost.
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