Infowars Internship on CV for IB Spring Weeks? (UK Target + US Citizen)
Hi guys,
Looking for some advice because I’m not sure if I’m overthinking this or if I’ve genuinely made a mistake without realising.
I’m currently a 1st year student on a 4 year STEM course at a UK target university and I’m planning to recruit next year for Spring Weeks and then Summer Analyst roles. Ideally IB but also open to quant, HF, PE, etc.
I got A*A*A*A at A level (Economics, Maths, Physics, Further Maths), I’ve been active in societies since starting uni, and I’m currently doing a remote search fund internship.
I’m also a UK and US dual citizen so I’m considering recruiting for the US as well, although I’m studying in the UK.
Here’s the problem. During my gap year I did an internship at Infowars (yes that Infowars, Alex Jones and all). I know people have strong opinions on it, but at the time I genuinely saw it as a legitimate media company with a massive audience and I thought it was a unique opportunity to get proper experience. I did real work, learned a lot, and it was easily the most intense and interesting internship I could have gotten during a gap year.
I also have a few pictures on my LinkedIn with Alex Jones from the time I was there. Again, at the time I didn’t really think about it beyond the fact it was a pretty crazy thing to have done and I assumed it would make my profile stand out.
Now that I’m looking at banking recruiting properly, I’m starting to realise finance is extremely reputation sensitive and I’m wondering if the Infowars name is something that HR will just auto reject, regardless of what I actually did there.
So I have a few questions:
Should I put the Infowars internship on my CV for Spring Weeks, or is it basically guaranteed rejection?
If it is a red flag, is it better to leave it off completely even if it leaves a gap year hole?
Should I delete the photos with Alex Jones from my LinkedIn, or just set them to private?
And if I recruit for US firms as a dual citizen, is this viewed differently compared to the UK, or is it even worse?
I’m not trying to debate politics here, I’m just trying to avoid killing my chances early on if this is something recruiters will instantly judge.
Any advice appreciated.
Sorry to break it to you, but once you hit VP at a BB/EB you have to sign your soul over to Baal at Little St James or Bohemian Grove and officially join the Deep State.
So unfortunately you will not just get blacklisted. A Deep State Mossad-CIA-MI6 hit squad will be dispatched to your campus to take you out before you even make it to assessment centre.
Hope this helps.
During a job interview I was asked if I have any other questions. I asked a Manager which room they summon Baphomet in (I went on a bit of a detour during our interview by talking about the Gnostic Christian tradition and how the God of the old Testatment is actually only a Subgod called the Demiurge; I don't remember why exactly). I felt like we got along well and it was obviously just a joke. Anyways, unfortunately I did not get an offer.
You would think that Sandy Hook and the jew-jew-jew clip and general anti semitism that Alex Jones is a radioactive person to be seen with.
But who knows, it is 2026. Maybe the Overton Window has shifted so far we can start wearing America First hats and Epstein Sweaters on dressdown fridays
As a brit, only a small percentage of people would be tapped into US politics enough to know what Infowars is. Generally would avoid
In fact they are already on their way as we speak
I’m sorry but there is no way this post is serious. If it is, it’s genuinely the funniest and most CV-toxic gap year internship I’ve ever seen. Interning for the most infamous conspiracy media brand in the West headed by the gay frogs—Sandy Hook guy, is insane.
Brit here. I’d probably private the pictures with Alex and more delicately state that experience somehow.
For the US - at this point having all that stuff on your LinkedIn/CV might actually help you
Isn't Alex Jones the unc version of Nick Fuentes?
Hahahaha what do you think will happen when someone looks them up?
Have you read WSO? It'll help you atp
On the off-chance this is real:
Remove photos of yourself and Mr. Jones. Having them up is all-risk, no reward.
For the internship, again, little upside on having it on there, lots of downside. You could replace the company name with "Large media company" and say it's NDA, but honestly, I'd leave out
A good chunk of your finance professionals in BOS/NYC are your typical WASP offsprings. A good chunk of them know someone who lost a kid at Sandy Hook. Would not include.
Unfortunately if you want finance Alex jones must be stripped from ur resume and back ground
On the other side of things, fuck finance. You are already tied in with Alex , use that to pursue your actual passions of politics
I would
This should slide under most people's radar and, if flagged, indicates you don't necessarily want to be associated with the controversial aspects.
I wouldn't give an offer to someone with such poor judgement as to make any political opinion public knowledge, let alone someone with such garbage media literacy and critical thinking skills to think that "Infowars" is a legitimate news source. How are you even at university?
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