The lawsuit, filed Monday in Idaho state court, says Jones’s Infowars website defamed Chobani and owner Hamdi Ulukaya in reports alleging the company’s practice of hiring refugees had brought crime and disease to the town of 45,000.  Alex Jones later shared the video on his YouTube channel, which has 2 million subscribers, using the headlines "MSM Covers for Globalist’s Refugee Import Program After Child Rape Case" and "Idaho Yogurt Maker Caught Importing Migrant Rapists." The lawsuit highlighted several InfoWars headlines and statements promoted on various platforms that the company said unfairly linked Chobani to the crime. The complaint also cited an August 2016 article that suggested Chobani was responsible for a “500% increase in tuberculosis in Twin Falls.” 
 
 Chobani said Jones had ignored requests to remove the reports, which as of early Tuesday were still accessible on the “Alex Jones Channel” on YouTube as well as the main Infowars site. Just last year, Jones removed all of his posts about the conspiracy theory known as Pizzagate — which falsely claimed that politicians working with Hillary Clinton were trafficking children through a Washington, DC, pizzeria — after a man stormed the restaurant and fired an assault weapon. Chobani sued Jones and his InfoWars website on Monday in Idaho District Court in Twin Falls, where the company operates the largest yogurt plant in the world. Ulukaya, a Turkish immigrant, has drawn threats for advocating for immigrants and refugees. More than 300 refugees work at the Twin Falls plant and another facility in New York, according to the Idaho Statesman. The company came into Jones’s crosshairs last summer, after a story about refugees in Twin Falls sexually assaulting a 5-year-old girl drew national attention. Right-wing websites, including Breitbart News, fanned flames of several conspiracies, including that a group of Syrian men had attacked the girl, that a rape had occurred, that a knife was present and that city officials attempted to cover up the crime, the Times-News in Twin Falls reported. Police and prosecutors said there was no rape, no knife was present, and authorities followed proper protocol, the Times-News reported. As recently as mid-April, Infowars was still connecting Chobani’s refugee hiring practices to the crimes, according to the company’s lawsuit.  Chobani, the Greek yogurt maker, is suing Alex Jones, the right-wing conspiracy theorist who says the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting was a hoax, 9/11 was an inside job by the U.S. government and Chobani imports migrant rapists to Twin Falls. Jones has now taken aim at Chobani and the Twin Falls community.” 
 
 Chobani’s lawsuit comes as Jones is fighting a closely watched custody battle in Texas. The case has focused in part on whether Jones’s fire-breathing radio persona reflects how he behaves outside the studio or amounts to a sort of performance art, as The Washington Post has reported.
– Conspiracy peddler Alex Jones has another lawsuit to handle. Greek yogurt maker Chobani has sued Jones' Infowars for publishing what it calls fake and defamatory stories related to the company's plant in Twin Falls, Idaho, reports BuzzFeed. Two examples: One video headlined, "Idaho Yogurt Maker Caught Importing Migrant Rapists" and a story blaming Chobani for a "500% increase in tuberculosis in Twin Falls." Chobani founder Hamdi Ulukaya wants the stories pulled and $10,000 in damages, but Jones says he isn't budging. "I’m never giving up, I love this," he said in an audio statement, per the Washington Post. "They have jumped the trillion-pound great white shark on this baby." Jones accused billionaire George Soros of being behind the suit, just weeks after accusing him of staging a chemical weapons attack in Syria. The migrant rape story stems from an incident in June 2016 in which three refugee boys, ages 14, 10, and, 7, sexually assaulted a 5-year-old girl in a laundry room, reports the Idaho Statesman. Details remain sealed, but prosecutors said one boy admitted touching the girl while the others filmed on a phone. The assault later was conflated by right-wing sites into a gang rape at knifepoint by Syrian men. Jones previously called the Sandy Hook shooting a hoax and said the government staged the 9/11 attacks, though in a recent court hearing in a child custody case, his lawyer argued that Jones' public persona is merely performance art. Ulukaya is a Turkish immigrant who has drawn national attention, both praise and scorn, for his advocacy of refugees. He employs more than 300 refugees at the Idaho plant and another in New York.