Alex Jones

Extracted Attributes

• Education

  Anderson High School (Graduated 1993), Austin Community College District

• Full Name

  Alexander Emerick Jones

• Occupation

  Radio host, conspiracy theorist, writer

• Citizenship

  United States

• Notable Work

  The Alex Jones Show, Infowars

• Date of Birth

  1974-02-11

• Place of Birth

  Dallas, Texas, United States

• Legal Liability

  $1.487 billion (Defamation damages awarded to Sandy Hook families)

Timeline

• Born in Dallas, Texas. (Source: Wikidata)

  1974-02-11

• Graduated from Anderson High School in Austin, Texas. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1993-06-01

• Founded the website Infowars. (Source: NPR)

  1999-01-01

• Briefly ran as a Republican candidate for state representative in Texas House District 48 before withdrawing. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2000-01-01

• Spoke at a rally in Lafayette Square Park supporting Donald Trump prior to the attack on the U.S. Capitol. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2021-01-06

• Juries in Connecticut and Texas awarded approximately $1.487 billion in damages to Sandy Hook families for defamatory statements. (Source: AP News)

  2022-10-12

• Filed for personal Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Houston, Texas. (Source: AP News)

  2022-12-02

• Elon Musk restored Alex Jones's account on X (formerly Twitter) following a platform poll. (Source: PBS News)

  2023-12-10

• Appeared at a federal courthouse in Houston for a bankruptcy hearing regarding asset liquidation. (Source: AP News)

  2024-06-14

Alex Jones

Alexander Emerick Jones (born February 11, 1974) is an American far-right radio show host and prominent conspiracy theorist. 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 by the Genesis Communications Network across the United States via syndicated and internet radio. He is the founder of Infowars and Banned.Video, websites that promote conspiracy theories and fake news. 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. 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". 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. In 2023, leaked texts from Jones's phone revealed that he had created the website National File to evade social media bans on Infowars content. 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. 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 that preceded the latter's supporters' attack on the US Capitol. 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. Following three more years of litigation, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Jones's appeal without comment. On December 2, 2022, Jones filed for personal bankruptcy.

Web Search Results

• Alex Jones - Wikipedia

  Alexander Emerick Jones was born on February 11, 1974, in Dallas, Texas, and was raised in Rockwall, 25 miles east of Dallas. His father was a dentist from Austin and his mother was a homemaker. He says he has English, German, Scottish, and Irish descent. The family moved to Austin in Jones's second year of high school. He attended Anderson High School "Anderson High School (Texas)"), where he played football and graduated in 1993. After graduating, Jones briefly attended Austin Community [...] Jones is a proponent of the New World Order conspiracy theory. In 2009, Jones claimed that a convicted con man's scheme to take over a long-vacant, would-be for-profit prison in Hardin, Montana, was part of a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) plot to detain US citizens in concentration camps, relating to said conspiracy theory. In 2010, Jones produced and directed Police State 4: The Rise of FEMA, a film he claimed "conclusively proves the existence of a secret network of FEMA camps" [...] In early 2000, Jones was one of seven Republican "Republican Party (United States)") candidates for state representative in Texas House District 48, an open swing district based in Austin, Texas. Jones said that he was running "to be a watchdog on the inside" but withdrew from the race after a couple of weeks.

• Alex Jones - AP News

  FILE - Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones speaks to the media after arriving at the federal courthouse for a hearing in front of a bankruptcy judge, Friday, June 14, 2024, in Houston. A federal bankruptcy judge Thursday, June 27, stopped an effort by the parents of a boy killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting to collect on some of the $50 million owed to them by Jones and his company for his claims that the massacre was a hoax. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File) [...] FILE - Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones takes the witness stand to testify at the Sandy Hook defamation damages trial at Connecticut Superior Court in Waterbury, Conn. Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. A Texas judge has ruled that Jones cannot use bankruptcy protection to avoid paying nearly $1 billion to families who sued over his conspiracy theories that the Sandy Hook school massacre was a hoax. (Tyler Sizemore/Hearst Connecticut Media via AP, Pool, File) [...] FILE - Infowars founder Alex Jones appears in court to testify during the Sandy Hook defamation damages trial at Connecticut Superior Court in Waterbury, Conn., Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. Jones has filed for personal bankruptcy protection in Texas as he faces nearly $1.5 billion in court judgments over conspiracy theories he spread about the Sandy Hook school massacre. Jones filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in bankruptcy court in Houston on Friday, Dec. 2. (Tyler Sizemore/Hearst

• How Alex Jones mainstreamed conspiracy theories : NPR

  toggle caption Matt York/AP A jury has ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay millions of dollars for spreading lies about the Sandy Hook school massacre. But his influence in right-wing media and politics remains strong. Matt York/AP Name a traumatic news event in recent decades, and it's almost certain Alex Jones has claimed it didn't happen — or not the way you think it did. The Boston Marathon bombing in 2013? Staged by the FBI. [...] Jones got his start in public access broadcasting in Austin, Texas, in the 1990s. From his early days on air, he spouted conspiracy theories about the siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, and the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. When his wild claims got him fired from a local radio station, he founded Infowars in 1999 and started broadcasting over the internet and in radio syndication. [...] #### How Alex Jones helped mainstream conspiracy theories into American life Listen · 4:50 Transcript Download `<iframe src=" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">` Transcript Enlarge this image A jury has ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay millions of dollars for spreading lies about the Sandy Hook school massacre. But his influence in right-wing media and politics remains strong. Matt York/AP hide caption

• Supreme Court turns away Alex Jones' attempt to block $1.5B ...

  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected conservative conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' last-ditch attempt to block an almost $1.5 billion defamation judgment he faces over false claims that the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax. The court without comment turned away Jones' appeal of a state court ruling. [...] In December 2012, a gunman killed 20 first-grade children and six adults at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Add NBC News to Google Judge allows Alex Jones to liquidate assets to pay damages to Sandy Hook families 01:04 After the shooting, Jones on more than one occasion suggested during his online shows that it was a "staged event," according to court papers.

• alex jones | PBS News

  Image 20: President Trump Makes Announcement On New Theories On Autism Causation In Children Owing nearly $1.5B to Sandy Hook families, Infowars host Alex Jones files for personal bankruptcy By Dave Collins, Jill Bleed, Associated Press Infowars host Alex Jones has filed for personal bankruptcy protection in Texas as he faces nearly $1.5 billion in court judgments over conspiracy theories he spread about the Sandy Hook school massacre. Continue reading Jump to the First PagePrevious Page [...] Image 15: President Trump Makes Announcement On New Theories On Autism Causation In Children Alex Jones seeks permission to convert his personal bankruptcy into a liquidation That would lead to a sell-off of a large portion of the Infowars host's assets to help pay some of the $1.5 billion he owes relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. By Dave Collins, Associated Press Dec 10 [...] Image 17: President Trump Makes Announcement On New Theories On Autism Causation In Children Elon Musk restores conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' X account, reversing Twitter's ban By Associated Press Elon Musk has restored the X account of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, pointing to a poll on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter that came out in favor of the Infowars host who repeatedly called the 2012 Sandy Hook… Continue reading Oct 20

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• Gender

  male

• Educated At

  Austin Community College District

• Instance Of

  Q5

• Occupation

  writer

• Citizenship

  United States

• Date Of Birth

  2/11/1974

• Notable Work

  The Alex Jones Show

• Place Of Birth

  Dallas