“InfoWars hit new heights in Trump’s first term, with the president and other Republicans appearing on Jones’ show and Trump retweeting InfoWars videos and defending its staffers from social media takedowns. But the conspiracy theory hub, like other right-wing media outlets, has been thrown into turmoil in the aftermath of the election, facing firings, budget cuts, and accusations from a former host that the site has gone too soft on the president. As Jones tries to find a footing in the post-Trump world, he’s facing competition from better-produced rivals like One America News and Newsmax, which have promoted conspiracy theories of their own. The most visible sign of internal tumult came on Dec. 17, when Jones fired longtime InfoWars host and conspiracy theorist David Knight. ‘I was just fired by Alex effective immediately,’ Knight, the rare InfoWars host to not already be banned by Twitter, tweeted shortly after his ouster. Knight and InfoWars didn’t respond to requests for comment.”
“InfoWars continues to face legal bills and potential hefty future judgments from lawsuits in Connecticut and Texas over Jones’ attacks on the families of children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre. But that budget crunch didn’t stop InfoWars from recently buying a hulking ‘battle tank.’ InfoWars also appears to have cut its evening show, which featured QAnon conspiracy theorist DeAnna Lorraine Tesoriero, a decision Knight claimed was prompted by the InfoWars show getting crushed on a nightly basis by Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show. InfoWars also appears to have stopped sponsoring conservative personality Kaitlin Bennett, the so-called “gun girl” whose job consisted primarily of baiting liberal college students into viral-ready exchanges. Even Jones’ teenage son, Rex Jones, has quit the site, complaining in an appearance on a right-wing internet show last week that InfoWars had failed to develop his talent and squelched his own attacks on Trump. ‘I have a lot of views on Trump that they didn’t like, and they didn’t want me to talk about some stuff,’ the younger Jones said. ‘They didn’t want me to criticize him'” – Daily Beast.