Mike Cernovich, a self-described "New Right" Internet personality, will begin regularly hosting part of "The Alex Jones Show" on InfoWars, a far-right media organization known for peddling unfounded conspiracy theories. While Cernovich will only initially be hosting an hour each week, the elevation to InfoWars host represents the meteoric rise in his profile over the past year. And now he's one of the first online right-wing trolls of the 2016 election cycle to take his act professional, if not quite mainstream. "I look forward to breaking huge stories on InfoWars," Cernovich told CNN. Such a strategy helps create a defense against critics who categorize InfoWars and Cernovich under the so-called "fake news" umbrella.

Source: CNN May 03, 2017 18:56 UTC