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Alexander Emerick Jones is an American far-right political commentator and prominent conspiracy theorist. Since at least 2000, he has hosted The Alex Jones Show from Austin, Texas, originally broadcast by the Genesis Communications Network across the United States via AM radio syndication and internet. He is the founder of Infowars and Banned.Video, websites that promote conspiracy theories and fa…
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culture · American far-right conspiracy theorist (born 1974) · radio personality · film producer · writer · conspiracy theorist · podcaster · anti-vaccine activist · gun rights advocate · misinformation creator · film director · political activist · also Alex Jones, Alexander Jones, Alexander Emric Jones, Alexander Emerick Jones, Jones
Born 11 February 1974 · Q319121
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“Whatever happens to President Trump in 15 days, he is still the elected president of this republic. And we do not recognize the Communist Chinese agent Joe Biden, or his controllers.”
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“s Newsroom the following evening he couldn”
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“1776 will commence again if you try to take our firearms”
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“to be a watchdog on the inside”
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“98 percent chance this was a government-orchestrated controlled bombing”
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WTXL ABC 27 Tallahassee News: Texas court reduces $50M judgment against Infowars' Alex Jones over falsely labeling Newtown killings a hoax
ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos: What to Know About Alex Jones' Texas Court Win and More Than $1 Billion in Damages He Still Faces
WHAS11: Court cuts Alex Jones award to parents of Sandy Hook shooting victim
The Telegraph: Alex Jones’s payment to Sandy Hook families slashed from $50m to $1.5m
Salon.com: Alex Jones owed Sandy Hook parents nearly $50 million. A court just cut it to $5.6 million
NewsNation: Your Morning: Court slashes Alex Jones’ $50M judgment
El Nuevo Día: Tribunal reduce a Alex Jones cantidad pagar por mentir sobre masacre escolar de Sandy Hook
israelnoticias.com: Tribunal de Texas reduce a $6 millones la condena contra Alex Jones
Detroit Free Press: Alex Jones gets Sandy Hook family's Texas judgment reduced on appeal
Local 3 News: RAW: FILE- COURT CUTS ALEX JONES AWARD TO SANDY HOOKS PARENTS
Searchlight Magazine: Sandy Hook damages reduced in Texas but Alex Jones still owes more than a billion
PressReader: Texas court cuts $50-million judgment against Alex Jones
Herald-Banner: What to know about Alex Jones' Texas court win and more than $1 billion in damages he still faces - Herald-Banner
TelegraphHerald.com: Court cuts $50M judgment against Alex Jones over falsely labeling Newtown killings a hoax
NewsCord: Texas Appeals Court Cuts Alex Jones’ $50 Million Sandy Hook Judgment To $1.5 Million: 11 outlets compared
AP News: Court cuts $50M judgment against Alex Jones over falsely labeling Sandy Hook killings a hoax
ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos: Court cuts $50M judgment against Infowars' Alex Jones over falsely labeling Newtown killings a hoax
Eagle-Tribune: Court cuts $50M judgment against Alex Jones over falsely labeling Sandy Hook killings a hoax - Eagle-Tribune
Law Commentary: Texas Appeals Court Cuts Alex Jones’ $45 Million Sandy Hook Punitive Award to $1.5 Million
KGW: Texas appeals court slashes $50 million settlement against Infowars founder Alex Jones
FOX8 WGHP: Appeals court slashes Alex Jones Sandy Hook judgment from $50 million to $1.5 million
nxsmediawire.com: Appeals court slashes Alex Jones Sandy Hook judgment from $50M to $1.5M
FOX 7 Austin: Texas appeals court cuts damages Alex Jones was ordered to pay Sandy Hook parents
Straight Arrow: Texas court reduces Alex Jones’ $50M judgment over false Sandy Hook claims
Jones once again fell out with Trump over his disagreements with the Iran War, criticizing the intervention as contrary to the "America First" message
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Texas Judge Maya Guerra Gamble ordered Infowars assets to be turned over to a state receiver to be sold to pay the families
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Claimed: “A video shows French President Emmanuel Macron, United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and German Chancellor Freidrich Merz with a bag of cocaine after visiting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.” — rated Pants on Fire by PolitiFact.
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Claimed: “Deceased InfoWars reporter Jamie White was on a “Ukrainian enemies hit list.”” — rated False by PolitiFact.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “Infowars host Alex Jones has accepted the role of President-elect Donald Trump’s press secretary.” False.
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USA Today rated the claim “Alex Jones fined $150 billion for warning about COVID-19 'crimes’” False.
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Christopher Murray, Jones's bankruptcy trustee, filed an emergency motion in a Houston court where he indicated his intent to not only sell InfoWars, but also shut down the website and liquidate its assets
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Snopes rated the claim “In December 2023, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' Twitter/X account, @RealAlexJones, was reinstated by Elon Musk after having been banned for abusive behavior since 2018.” True.
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When he reinstated Jones's account citing that if Jones said something false, Community Notes would correct him
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Owen Shroyer, an InfoWars co-host who accompanied Jones to the capital on January 6, 2021, was sentenced to thirty days in prison for violating an active order to stay away from the Capitol grounds
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Jones launched a new subscription-based podcast, Alex Jones Live
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“s account citing that if Jones said something false, Community Notes would correct him. InfoWars remained available on Roku devices, in January 2019, a year after the channel”
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Jones filed for personal bankruptcy
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During a defamation trial in Texas brought by Sandy Hook school shooting parents against Jones, a lawyer for the plaintiffs revealed that Jones's lawyer had inadvertently sent him two years of texts from Jones's phone
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The day they were dynamited by unknown saboteurs, his guest U
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Jones said concerning the Robb Elementary School shooting: "I would predict a lot of mass shootings right before elections and like clockwork, it is happening
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“InfoWars is a prominent trademark in the conspiracy theory community and Alex Jones is equally as prominent”
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“I would predict a lot of mass shootings right before elections and like clockwork, it is happening. To me, it is just very opportunistic what is happening”
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The House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack subpoenaed Jones for testimony and documents by December 18 and 6, respectively
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Snopes rated the claim “Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones saved children from smugglers who were illegally transporting them at the border.” False.
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fact checker rated the claim “Amongst the more notable donors who contributed to the January 6th “Stop the Steal” rallyfor President Trump was Alex Jones.” correct.
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Jones was a speaker at the rally in Lafayette Square Park supporting Trump that preceded the latter's supporters' attack on the US Capitol
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After the Capitol attack, Jones denounced believers of the QAnon conspiracy theory on InfoWars
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Snopes.com rated the claim “Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones said President-elect Joe Biden will be "removed" from office "one way or another."” Correct Attribution.
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Warning that the federal government might proceed to seize the products he was marketing for COVID-19 or fine him if he continued to sell them
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Jones was issued a cease and desist from the Attorney General of New York, after he claimed, in the absence of any evidence, that products he sold, including colloidal silver toothpaste, were an effective treatment for C
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InfoWars pulled in $245,000 in food sales, a day after Jones stoked fear about food shortages caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in a broadcast
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And called on demonstrations to be held on the premise the election had been "rigged" against Trump
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The Alex Jones Show was syndicated nationally by the Genesis Communications Network to more than 100 AM and FM radio stations in the United States
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Jones was barred from using both Facebook and Instagram
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The InfoWars app was removed from the Apple App Store for "objectionable content"
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Vimeo removed all of Jones's videos because of "prohibitions on discriminatory and hateful content"
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Facebook, Apple, YouTube and Spotify removed all content by Jones and InfoWars for policy violations
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Stitcher Radio removed all of his podcasts, citing harassment
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Facebook suspended Jones's profile for 30 days, and removed the same videos, saying they violated the website's standards against hate speech and bullying
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YouTube removed four InfoWars' videos citing "child endangerment and hate speech", issued another "strike" against the channel, and suspended the ability to live stream
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Jones threatened to come after drag performers with torches "like the villagers in the night"
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The New Yorker quoted Jones as claiming InfoWars was "defending people's right to not be forcibly infected with vaccines"
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Claimed: “Emails show Democrats, Hillary Clinton and George Soros instigated and orchestrated racial protests in Charlottesville by trying to "control" and keep people "desperate."” — rated Pants on Fire by PolitiFact.
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Vox covered his claim that the introduction of the Sesame Street character Julia, an autistic Muppet, was "designed to normalize autism, a disorder caused by vaccines"
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Claimed: “Says police officers smoke marijuana once a year as part of their jobs.” — rated False by PolitiFact.
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By the Center for Environmental Health (CEH) determined that two products sold by Jones contained potentially dangerous levels of the heavy metal lead
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Released album “Blood Runs Deep Vol 2”.
PolitiFact rated the claim “Says Alex Jones "said that the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre were child actors and no one was actually killed there."” True.
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Campaign: 2016 presidential election.
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“s program during the 2016 presidential campaign. Ron and Rand Paul were the only other significant politicians to appear on Jones”
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Donald Trump, then a presidential candidate, appeared on The Alex Jones Show, with Trump stating to Jones at the end: "your reputation is amazing
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InfoWars then had revenues of over $20 million a year
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Released album “Keep On Moving”.
Jones appeared as a guest on the BBC's Sunday Politics, discussing conspiracy theories about the Bilderberg Group, with presenter Andrew Neil and journalist David Aaronovitch
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“were very, very suspicious, but at minimum, the tragic events were used to try to create guilt on the part of the average gun owner. So via the guilt trip, they would accept their individual liberties curtailed”
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Released album “Jackin For Beats”.
Jones linked to a story titled "List of All FEMA Concentration Camps in America Revealed" from the German UFO conspiracy website Disclose
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Which included criticism by Rush Limbaugh, when the news spread that Jared Lee Loughner, the perpetrator of the 2011 Tucson shooting, had been "a fan" of the 9/11 conspiracy film Loose Change of which Jones had been an e
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Jones had a larger on-line audience than Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh combined
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The show attracted around two million listeners each week
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Claimed: "The reason there's so many gay people now is because it's a chemical warfare operation, and I have the government documents where they said they're going to encourage homosexuality with chemicals so that peo
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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" and that "The military-industrial complex is transforming our once fre
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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 concentrat
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Jones was arrested while protesting at 6th Avenue and 48th Street in New York City, when his group crashed a live television show featuring Geraldo Rivera
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“I want to say, on the record, it takes two to tango. I could have handled it better”
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While on his way to cover a meeting of the Bilderberg Group in Ottawa, Jones was stopped and detained at the Ottawa airport by Canadian authorities
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Jones's radio show was syndicated on approximately 100 stations
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Jones infiltrated the Bohemian Grove Cremation of Care, a Jones-alleged planning event of the New World Order involving child sacrifice, which he called "a ritualistic shedding of conscience and empathy" and an "abuse of
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Jones tied with Shannon Burke for that year's poll of "Best Austin Talk Radio Host", as voted by readers of The Austin Chronicle
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Jones founded with his wife, Kelly Jones, the website InfoWars, initially as a mail-order outlet for the sale of their conspiracy-oriented videos
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“proud to be listed as a thought criminal against Big Brother”
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Jones organized a successful campaign to build a new Branch Davidian church as a memorial to those who died during the 1993 fire
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Jones switched to radio, hosting a show named The Final Edition on KJFK (98
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Was intended by perpetrator Timothy McVeigh as a response to the federal involvement in the botched resolution of the Waco siege on its second anniversary
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An attraction that drew 20,000 annual visitors
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Born 1974-02-11.
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In Dallas, Texas, and was raised in Rockwall, 25 miles (40 km) east of Dallas
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“, The Alex Jones Show, April 13 2018. God fucking damn it, man. What the fuck? Is there nobody fucking pure in this goddamn fucking world? See, I’m fucking pissed right now. Syria fought Al Qaeda, they fought ISIS, they fought it all, and now you’ve got [James] Mattis and fucking all these people shitting all over us.”
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“, The Alex Jones Show, April 13 2018. They said if you just turn against Trump it would be better, but he was doing good, and that”
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