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Jake Paul Beats Tyson, But Alex Jones Is the Winner

As millions focused on Jake Paul & Mike Tyson, Trump gave the InfoWars founder broad oversight power over print & broadcast news.

Andrew Jazprose Hill

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InfoWars Founder Alex Jones, Photo by Gage Skidmore via Flickr Creative Commons License 2.0

In a classic feat of misdirection worthy of David Copperfield, President-elect Donald Trump took aim at the free press while an estimated audience of 120 million focused on the boxing match between 27-year-old Jake Paul and a Mike Tyson 31 years his senior.

Trump’s move came in the form of a new cabinet-level position that gives former InfoWars owner Alex Jones broad oversight of broadcast and cable news operations as well as censorship authority over any publication deemed seditious.

Citing his long history of exposing threats to national security, Trump told a news conference Saturday, “No one is better qualified than Alex to defend America against the ongoing threat of seditious disinformation.”

Mr. Trump said the new agency is his best idea since Space Force and will be called the Bureau of Information, Thought Control, and Hegemony (BITCH).

Modeled on other cabinet-level departments like HHS and DNI, BITCH will monitor American communications at every level to ensure compliance with FoxSpeak, the de…

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