ABSTRACT
On Russell Street, close to Covent Garden, sits a Starbucks that is popular with many of the tourists who visit the nearby markets and shops that were first laid out by the Welsh architect, Inigo Jones, in the sixteenth century. Infowars is an example of everything that has gone wrong in relation to the influence of big tech and journalism, being a new breed of publication whose widespread influence was only made possible by the new platforms. The site itself was established by Jones in 1999, essentially a home page advertisement for various documentaries promoted by him with titles such as Wake Up or Waco and Police State 2000. In 2013, Seitz-Wald estimated that Jones was making $10 million a year from his media empire, largely through sales of body building and health supplements, having grown from a reported $1.5 million turnover in 2009.
