Historical Figure
Alex Jones
b. 1974
American radio host and conspiracy theorist (born 1974)
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Biography
Alexander Emerick Jones 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.
Timeline
The story of Alex Jones, told in moments.
Launched Infowars.com. His radio show had already been syndicated to over 100 stations. He'd gained a following by claiming the U.S. government was behind domestic terrorist attacks.
Banned from YouTube, Facebook, Apple, and Spotify within a 12-hour span. The platforms cited repeated policy violations for hate speech and harassment.
Courts in Texas and Connecticut ordered him to pay $1.5 billion in damages to families of Sandy Hook victims. He'd spent years calling the 2012 school shooting a hoax. He filed for bankruptcy.
In Their Own Words (20)
They said if you just turn against Trump it would be better, but he was doing good, and that's what makes it so bad... If he had been a piece a crap from the beginning, it wouldn't be so bad. But we made so many sacrifices. And now he's crapping all over us.
The Alex Jones Show, 13 April 2018; quoted in "Watch Alex Jones cry over Trump's decision to bomb Syria" by Christine Friar, The Daily Dot (14 April 2018)., 2018
We're turning into a bunch of self-centered walking dead trash… and we're such zombies! We're such self-centered crap that we don't even notice Hell itself rising up against us.
"we don't even notice hell itself rising up against us", The Alex Jones Show, January 28, 2017., 2017
I don't wanna swim around in your piss. I go to the bathroom to piss.
"Alex Jones Swearing/Ranting Compilation", The Alex Jones Show, January 13, 2017., 2017
It is surreal to talk about issues, here on air, and then word-for-word hear Trump say it two days later.
The Alex Jones Show, 11 August 2016., 2016
A coup de grâce. a götterdämmerung battle. oh its a twilight of the gods alright, these would-be gods of the new world order. they're no gods at all. ragnarök.
Alex Jones Clip Compilation, November 23, 2016, 2016
Artifacts (15)
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