Alex Jones

Alex Jones
Jones in 2024
Born
Alexander Emerick Jones

(1974-02-11) February 11, 1974
Dallas, Texas, U.S.
OccupationRadio host
Known for
Spouses
  • Kelly Jones
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    (m. 2007; div. 2015)​
  • Erika Wulff
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    (m. 2017)​
Children4
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Alexander Emerick Jones (born February 11, 1974) is an American far-right[1] radio show host and prominent conspiracy theorist.[a][4] He hosts The Alex Jones Show from Austin, Texas. The Alex Jones Show is the longest-running online news and politics talk show; it was previously broadcast[5] by the Genesis Communications Network across the United States via syndicated and internet radio.[6] He is the founder of InfoWars and Banned.Video, websites that promote conspiracy theories and fake news.[7][8][9]

Among many other conspiracy theories, Jones has alleged that the United States government either concealed information about or outright falsified the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the Oklahoma City bombing, the September 11 attacks, and the 1969 Moon landing.[10] He has also claimed that several governments and large businesses have colluded to create a globalist "New World Order" through "manufactured economic crises, sophisticated surveillance tech and—above all—inside-job terror attacks that fuel exploitable hysteria".[11] Jones has provided a platform for white nationalists and neo-Nazis on his website, Banned.Video, as well as providing an "entry point" to their ideology.[12] In 2023, leaked texts from Jones's phone revealed that he created the website National File to evade social media bans on InfoWars content.[13][14]

A longtime critic of Republican and Democratic foreign and security policy, Jones supported Donald Trump's 2016 presidential bid and continued to support him as a savior from an alleged criminal bipartisan cabal controlling the federal government, despite also falling out with Trump over several of his policies, including airstrikes against the Assad regime.[15][16][17] A staunch supporter of Trump's re-election, Jones also supported the attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election. On January 6, 2021, Jones was a speaker at the rally in Lafayette Square Park supporting Trump preceding the latter's supporters' attack on the US Capitol.[18]

In October 2022, for Jones's defamatory falsehoods about the Sandy Hook shooting, juries in Connecticut and Texas awarded a total of $1.487 billion in damages from Jones to a first responder and families of victims; the plaintiffs alleged that Jones's lies led to them being threatened and harassed for years.[11][19][20] On December 2, 2022, Jones filed for personal bankruptcy.[21]

  1. ^ Sources describing Jones as far-right include:
    • Bote, Joshua. "Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ordered to stop peddling phony coronavirus cures by New York AG". USA Today. Retrieved December 28, 2024.
  2. ^ Coscarelli, Joe (November 17, 2013). "An Interview With Alex Jones, America's Leading (and Proudest) Conspiracy Theorist". New York. New York: New York Media. Archived from the original on September 8, 2014. Retrieved September 8, 2014.
  3. ^ "Alex Jones Profile". Southern Poverty Law Center. Archived from the original on July 15, 2015. Retrieved June 11, 2012.
  4. ^ Sources describing Jones as a conspiracy theorist include:
    • Gosa, Travis L. (2011). "Counterknowledge, racial paranoia, and the cultic milieu: Decoding hip hop conspiracy theory". Poetics. 39 (3): 187. doi:10.1016/j.poetic.2011.03.003.
    • Black, Louis (July 14, 2000). "Unknown Title". The Austin Chronicle. Archived from the original on July 5, 2009. Retrieved May 20, 2008. Jones is an articulate, sometimes hypnotic, often just annoying conspiracy theorist.
  5. ^ "List of Alex Jones Radio Show Affiliated Stations" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on April 6, 2019. Retrieved January 8, 2013.
  6. ^ "The Alex Jones Show". Tune In. Archived from the original on January 5, 2013. Retrieved January 13, 2013.
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  9. ^ Mencimer, Stephanie (December 12, 2016). "PizzaGate Shooter Read Alex Jones. Here Are Some Other Fans Who Perpetrated Violent Acts". Mother Jones. San Francisco, California: Foundation for National Progress. Archived from the original on August 4, 2018. Retrieved August 6, 2018.
  10. ^ Multiple sources:
  11. ^ a b Zaitchik, Alexander (March 2, 2011). "Meet Alex Jones". Rolling Stone. New York: Wenner Media LLC. Archived from the original on February 14, 2013. Retrieved February 24, 2013.
  12. ^ Multiple sources:
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  15. ^ "Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones weeps over Trump's Syria strikes: 'I just feel like I had my best girlfriend break up with me'". Dallas News. April 15, 2018. Archived from the original on August 11, 2021. Retrieved August 11, 2021.
  16. ^ Ohlheiser, Abby (April 15, 2018). "'They have broken Trump': Alex Jones and the Trump Internet's fractured response to the Syria strikes". Washington Post. Archived from the original on August 4, 2020. Retrieved September 1, 2018.
  17. ^ Gstalter, Morgan (April 14, 2018). "Infowars's Alex Jones blasts Trump over airstrikes: 'He's crapping all over us'". The Hill. Archived from the original on January 30, 2024. Retrieved April 16, 2024.
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  19. ^ "Jury awards nearly $1 billion to Sandy Hook families in Alex Jones case | CNN Business". October 12, 2022. Archived from the original on October 13, 2022. Retrieved October 13, 2022.
  20. ^ Cite error: The named reference evans was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  21. ^ Williamson, Elizabeth (December 2, 2022). "Alex Jones Files for Bankruptcy". The New York Times. Archived from the original on December 2, 2022. Retrieved December 2, 2022.


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