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INFOWARS, AN AMERICAN conspiracy theory website, has falsely claimed that Ireland plans to take in four million people from Africa and says that it is evidence that white people are being wiped out.
These claims are untrue and appear to be based on a misreading of a headline.
In a clip from an InfoWars broadcast, host Harrison Smith says: “When it comes to Ireland, as we’ve pointed out many times, it is a population of five million Irish people on the island of Ireland, and they have announced their intentions to bring in four million Africans to that country.
“I mean, if that’s not genocide of the race of the Irish – if this is not white genocide, I don’t know what is.”
He laments that his claims are not discussed in mainstream media, and when they are talked about, they are often dismissed as a “white supremacist conspiracy theory”.
A version of this clip shared by an Irish group on Facebook has been viewed more than 9,800 times.
InfoWars, which regularly gives a platform to white supremacists and racist misinformation, was founded by Alex Jones.
Jones filed for bankruptcy last year after multiple juries found that he had defamed families of the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre, which he had claimed was a hoax and a “false flag operation” where no one had actually died. In reality, 26 people were shot dead during the massacre, 20 of whom were children aged...
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