Fine by me. Even if the scorpion has never stung, offer a warning anyway.

And that is one of Alex's purposes.

He probably made up #pizzagate too. wink wink.

The former Infowars video editor said that he made up lies about Islamberg a Muslim community north of New York City and accused it of harboring terrorists, after being told in interviews that the people of Islamberg were “kind, generous neighbors,” Owens writes they decided to lie.

“The information did not meet our expectations so we made it up preying on the vulnerable and feeding the prejudices and fears of Jones’s audience” he wrote, “we ignored certain facts, fabricated others and took situations out of context to fit our narrative.”

The fabrications led to headlines such as “Shariah Law Zones Confirmed in America,” “Report: Obama’s Terror Cells in the U.S.,” and “The Rumors Are True: Shariah Law Is Here!” Owens writes that he quit soon after the Islamberg assignment. DailyBeast .