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05-17-2017, 05:55 PM #1
Alex Jones Retracts Chobani Claims to Resolve Lawsuit
Alex Jones Retracts Chobani Claims to Resolve Lawsuit
By CHRISTINE HAUSER MAY 17, 2017
The right-wing radio host Alex Jones in Austin, Tex., in April.CreditTamir Kalifa/Austin American-Statesman, via Associated Press
Alex Jones, the high-profile conspiracy theorist and the host of a right-wing radio show, said on Wednesday that he had “mischaracterized” the yogurt factory Chobani in statements on social media that led to a lawsuit.
In a statement at the end of one of his broadcasts on Wednesday, Mr. Jones said: “During the week of April 10, 2017, certain statements were made on the InfoWars Twitter feed and YouTube channel regarding Chobani, LLC that I now understand to be wrong.”
“The Tweets and video have now been retracted, and will not be reposted. On behalf of InfoWars, I regret that we mischaracterized Chobani, its employees and the people of Twin Falls, Idaho, the way we did,” he said.
Chobani filed a lawsuit on April 24 against Mr. Jones, claiming that he had posted “false” and “defamatory” news reports about the yogurt company and its founder, Hamdi Ulukaya, a Turkish immigrant of Kurdish descent. The suit, filed in Federal District Court in Twin Falls County, Idaho, named Mr. Jones and the media companies InfoWars and Free Speech Systems as defendants.
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The reports were published April 11 on InfoWars.com and on “The Alex Jones Channel” on YouTube, saying that the company’s factory in Idaho, which employs refugees, was connected to a 2016 child sexual assault and a rise in tuberculosis cases. They were promoted on Twitter under the headline “Idaho Yogurt Maker Caught Importing Migrant Rapists,” and were spread widely online.
On Wednesday, a Chobani spokesman, Michael Gonda, said in an email: “The case has been resolved.”
Lawyers for Mr. Jones did not reply to emails on Wednesday.
Mr. Jones, appearing in a video statement last month after the lawsuit was filed, said that his organization was reporting on an assault case and tuberculosis rates from material that “has been all over mainstream news.”
Chobani started as a yogurt business in upstate New York and expanded to Twin Falls, a city of about 46,500 south of Boise. Mr. Ulukaya became the target of anti-immigrant ire after he stepped up his advocacy of refugees — employing more than 300 of them in his factories and starting a foundation to help migrants.
The lawsuit filed by Chobani said that Mr. Jones and his companies had declined to remove the reports or publish a retraction despite multiple written demands, and also noted that Mr. Jones was “no stranger to spurious statements.”
It cited his previous contentions that the Sept. 11 attacks were orchestrated by the United States government and that the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., was a hoax concocted by those hostile to the Second Amendment.
It was not the first time that Mr. Jones has apologized for his remarks. In March, he apologized for his role in spreading the hoax known as Pizzagate, which claimed, falsely, that top Democratic officials were involved with a child abuse ring centered on Comet Ping Pong, a restaurant in Washington.
The restaurant was besieged with threats, and in December a man drove from North Carolina to the pizzeria and fired a rifle inside. The man, Edgar M. Welch, 28, has pleaded guilty to assault with a dangerous weapon and interstate transportation of a firearm and will be sentenced in June.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/u...i-lawsuit.html
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