The Outrage Broadcast

The studio that industrialized the genre: supplements in the breaks, apocalypse on the hour. Its 'staged tragedy' claims ended in historic defamation judgments — the moment the folklore met the rules of evidence.

The outrage broadcast: Alex Jones' Infowars (1999-) — the commercial engine that industrialized conspiracy media, funding itself through supplement sales (documented in trial discovery: tens of millions in annual revenue). Documented: the Sandy Hook defamation verdicts (~$1.4B, 2022) and bankruptcy proceedings; the 'performance artist' defense offered by his own attorney in a custody case (2017). On this map as infrastructure, not content: the node demonstrating that the modern lore economy has a business model, with audited books.