On January 14, 2020,National File reiterated a story from trade publicationTri-State Livestock News,[19] wherein South Dakota cattle veterinarian James Stangle falsely claims thatImpossible Whoppers contain "44 mg of estrogen" and that "six glasses ofsoy milk per day has enough estrogen to grow boobs on a male."[19] Stangle later retracted this story as, in fact, he was referring toisoflavones, notestrogen; Impossible Whoppers contain 2 mg of isoflavones, not 44; and – as of 2021[update] – there is no evidence showinga link between isoflavones and feminization or childhood development,[20][21] and there is evidence to the contrary.[22][23]
On October 23, 2020,National File published photos they claimed showedMark Kelly, at the time a candidate in the2020 special election in Arizona, at a college party in 1985 dressed asAdolf Hitler.[6][16] Several classmates of Kelly's stated that he was not the man in the photo,[5] andPolitiFact rated theNational File story "false".[18] Kelly filed adefamation lawsuit againstNational File on October 26.[16]
On October 26, 2020,National File published what it claimed to be the contents of a diary byAshley Biden, a daughter of then-presidential candidateJoe Biden. The diary had been sold toProject Veritas, a far-right activist group, whose founder said the diary's authenticity could not be confirmed.[25][26]
On February 27, 2022, two days before the Texas Republicanprimaryrunoff election,National File posted audio of an interview with formerjihadistTania Joya, a British woman then living inPlano, Texas, who said that she andVan Taylor—U.S. representative for Plano and primary candidate—had a nine-month sexual affair in 2020 and 2021. Joya shared salacious details about the affair and said that Taylor had given herUS$5,000 for personal expenses. Her statements circulated widely on social media, prompting Taylor to admit to an extramarital affair and end his reelection campaign, effectively ceding the primary to Republican runner-upKeith Self.[27] Taylor was one of the few Republican U.S. representatives to join Democrats in voting to establish theJanuary 6 commission to investigate thestorming of the U.S. Capitol, a vote that caused him to be intensely criticized by primary election opponents and conservative commentators, despite his conservative voting record on other issues.[27][28]
^abcSquire, Megan; Hayden, Michael Edison (March 8, 2023)."'Absolutely Bonkers': Inside Infowars' Money Machine".Southern Poverty Law Center.Archived from the original on March 27, 2023. RetrievedMarch 27, 2023.Jones' text messages suggest Jones and his collaborators sought to launder his Infowars content to social media sites that had banned it, while disguising its true origin. For example, the texts reveal that Jones created the junk-news website National File.
^abBarr, Kyle (March 17, 2023)."Alex Jones' Alleged Secret Site Gets Around Social Media Bans".Gizmodo.Archived from the original on April 3, 2023. RetrievedMarch 27, 2023.In leaked texts shared earlier this month by the Southern Poverty Law Center between him and well-known Republican operative Roger Stone in 2020, Jones said "off record this is my site" in relation to National File.
