Alex Jones & the War on Information | Alex Lee Moyer

Hidden Forces

Demetri Kofinas

Government, Business

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 267 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Alex Lee Moyer the filmmaker behind “Alex’s War,” an excellent new documentary about Alex Jones, the founder of Infowars. Alex is an incredibly controversial cultural figure and media personality whose popularity and influence have become especially difficult to measure since he was banned from YouTube and most every other major media and social media platform in 2018.

Jones granted Moyer unprecedented access for a documentary that is truly unique in both its political appeal and in how it intimately captures parts of Alex’s life that very few people outside of his immediate community have been able to experience. It is an exploration of our relationship to truth and our distrust of mainstream institutions that grapples gracefully with the broader cultural and political moment that we are living through as a country.

This episode is meant to expose you to many of the cultural cross-currents that inform some of the political and social views of millions of Americans, with the goal of advancing our understanding of one another and helping to bridge the cultural divide that seems to be tearing our country apart.

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Episode Recorded on 08/15/2022

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0:00.0	What's up everybody? My name is Dmitri Kafinas and you're listening to Hidden Forces,
0:06.0	a podcast that inspires investors, entrepreneurs and everyday citizens to challenge consensus
0:13.0	narratives and to learn how to think critically about the systems of power shaping our world.
0:19.2	My guest in this episode is Alex Lee Moyer, the filmmaker behind an excellent new documentary
0:25.5	about one of the most controversial people in America. I'm talking of course about Alex Jones,
0:31.5	the founder of Infowars. A popular, alternative-used platform whose size and influence has become
0:38.1	especially difficult to measure since Alex himself was banned from YouTube and most
0:43.1	every other major media and social media platform almost four years ago to the day.
0:49.5	This was a uniquely exciting conversation for me to have, partly because I was myself
0:55.0	a very engaged Alex Jones listener for about two years after the great financial crisis.
1:00.5	And so I came into this conversation with a pre-existing relationship too and experience
1:06.1	of Alex and a real fascination with his popularity and with what it says about our relationship
1:11.7	to truth, our distrust of mainstream institutions and this broader cultural and political moment
1:18.2	that we're all living through. The name of the documentary is Alex's
1:21.8	war and as you will hear from our discussion, I really enjoyed this film. Takes a lot of courage
1:27.8	and objectivity to produce a documentary about such a socially divisive person or topic that
1:33.4	can appeal to people across the political spectrum. I think this film does that and I cannot
1:38.4	recommend it enough. For anyone who is new to the Hidden Forces podcast, we are a listener
1:43.3	supported show. So if you want access to our premium content as well as the transcripts and
1:47.8	intelligence reports, which include my takeaways from every episode, head over to hiddenforces.io,
1:54.0	select the episode that you're interested in and click on the premium extras where you can then
1:58.6	sign up to one of our premium content tiers. And with that, please enjoy this week's conversation
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