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Jeez! 800k per day. That is obscene, for a charlatan. How much of this is profit I wonder. 4M is chump change for someone making THAT much money. Plus, who kno

by akudha 4y ago

Jeez! 800k per day. That is obscene, for a charlatan. How much of this is profit I wonder. 4M is chump change for someone making THAT much money. Plus, who knows how much money his nut job supporters are donating to him.

zamalek 4y ago
There are still punitive damages to decide, which are going to factor in his worth.
tmn 4y ago
OP said 800,00 so I'm not sure if that was intended to be 800,000. But that obviously doesn't pass the BS test. Alex jones is not pulling in over 100m a year or anywhere close to that.
- akudha 4y ago
  I have seen the 800k figure quoted elsewhere too. But even 80k per DAY is insane amount of money. Let’s say half of it is profit. 4M/40k = 100 days. For the amount of damage he has caused, for the amount of pain he has inflicted - 100 days of profit as punishment is nothing. My hope is that they clean him out of every dollar he has got. But, my guess is he’ll come out of it relatively unscathed. Even a 20M settlement might not be much to him. There are much bigger problems though - how is he able to get such a large audience? Shouldn’t these social media companies have some responsibility? Why has it taken so long for this case (years and years) to reach the verdict stage? How is he lying freely in court, to the judge, on camera, and not facing any consequences? And so on…
titzer 4y ago
> That is obscene, for a charlatan. The attention economy seems to be particularly vulnerable to charlatans. Platforms are happy to take their cut as long as those eyeballs are glued and the ad profits are dollars in. They'll furrow brows and play act some carefully chosen words, but these platforms will keep giving clowns a stage, because this circus is the best yet.
rsynnott 4y ago
> That is obscene, for a charlatan. The sort of people who make up his audience are, by definition, gullible, so they're a particularly valuable audience for advertisers.
pwinnski 4y ago
As outlined in the trial, that was 800k/day during a specific week, he claimed that was the highest ever figure. He had previously claimed that profit was 20% of that, when pushed he said 20-40%, but documents suggest it's more like 70%. Still, that $800k/day was for a week, it can't be extrapolated over the whole year.

by akudha 4y ago

zamalek 4y ago

There are still punitive damages to decide, which are going to factor in his worth.

tmn 4y ago

OP said 800,00 so I'm not sure if that was intended to be 800,000. But that obviously doesn't pass the BS test. Alex jones is not pulling in over 100m a year or anywhere close to that.

akudha 4y ago
I have seen the 800k figure quoted elsewhere too. But even 80k per DAY is insane amount of money. Let’s say half of it is profit. 4M/40k = 100 days. For the amount of damage he has caused, for the amount of pain he has inflicted - 100 days of profit as punishment is nothing. My hope is that they clean him out of every dollar he has got. But, my guess is he’ll come out of it relatively unscathed. Even a 20M settlement might not be much to him. There are much bigger problems though - how is he able to get such a large audience? Shouldn’t these social media companies have some responsibility? Why has it taken so long for this case (years and years) to reach the verdict stage? How is he lying freely in court, to the judge, on camera, and not facing any consequences? And so on…

titzer 4y ago

> That is obscene, for a charlatan. The attention economy seems to be particularly vulnerable to charlatans. Platforms are happy to take their cut as long as those eyeballs are glued and the ad profits are dollars in. They'll furrow brows and play act some carefully chosen words, but these platforms will keep giving clowns a stage, because this circus is the best yet.

rsynnott 4y ago

> That is obscene, for a charlatan. The sort of people who make up his audience are, by definition, gullible, so they're a particularly valuable audience for advertisers.

pwinnski 4y ago

As outlined in the trial, that was 800k/day during a specific week, he claimed that was the highest ever figure. He had previously claimed that profit was 20% of that, when pushed he said 20-40%, but documents suggest it's more like 70%. Still, that $800k/day was for a week, it can't be extrapolated over the whole year.