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Alex Jones is, for better or worse, extremely popular. As in, he has more active daily listeners than Fox and CNN combined. Yeah, I know.

Elon Musk is boosting his reputation by assisting Alex Jones, or at least that's what Elon Musk believes.

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> As in, he has more active daily listeners than Fox and CNN combined. Yeah, I know.

Wow, this is genuinely frightening.

Yeah, pretty scary. Well at least he brought this issue to my attention. Since then I have actually put effort into filtering the water I let go into my body. So that's good.

  https://www.ted.com/talks/tyrone_hayes_endocrine_disruption_environmental_justice_and_the_ivory_tower?subtitle=en

Its only frightening if it's true, and there's no source, so I wouldn't sweat it

Yeah, now I don't quite believe it. Does anyone have a source for this claim?

Can you provide some stats on this? I was unable to find anything after 15 min of looking, and that would be quite a surprise to me.

Wow. I had absolutely no idea. I thought he was considered a radioactive fringe figure.

Yeah, there's that section of the population that is all "oh no, you can't tacitly approve of listening to [thing] or [some opinion] because that's a bad think". And then there's the rest of the population that just doesn't give a shit and won't hesitate to say "yeah, the government is not your fucking dad, maybe it's time to grow up".

Replying to myself to correct the record: I fell for some low-effort propaganda here. A bit embarrassing.

Anyway, no, there is no evidence to support this claim. Based just on internet traffic, CNN alone commands 1-2 orders of magnitude larger audience. Duh.

Where is that traffic sourced from? I am neutrally curious about it myself.

Can we get a source on this?

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