Alex Jones

Alexander Emerick Jones was born on February 11, 1974, in Dallas, Texas, and grew up in the Austin suburb of Rockwall. He attended community college and began working at Austin's community-access cable TV station before landing a talk radio show at Austin's KJFK, from which he was fired in 1999 for refusing to broaden his topics beyond conspiracy theories. He had already begun building his InfoWars website and continued broadcasting independently online.

Over the 2000s and 2010s, Jones built InfoWars into one of the most influential alternative media platforms in the country, promoting the theory that a secret globalist 'New World Order' controls governments and stages terrorist events as 'false flags.' His claims included that the 9/11 attacks, the Oklahoma City bombing, and numerous school shootings were government-orchestrated hoaxes. His financial model centered on selling dietary supplements — including products with names like 'Super Male Vitality' and 'Brain Force Plus' — to listeners primed by health paranoia, generating what court records describe as approximately 80% of Free Speech Systems' revenue.

Jones's most consequential and destructive claim was his sustained promotion of the idea that the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre — in which 20 children and 6 adults were killed — was a hoax staged with paid 'crisis actors.' This caused years of harassment and death threats against the grieving parents. In August 2022, Texas and Connecticut juries found Jones liable for defamation and emotional distress, and the combined judgments totaled approximately $1.4 billion — one of the largest defamation verdicts in US history.

Facing financial ruin, Jones filed for bankruptcy in December 2022. The bankruptcy proceedings became protracted as courts wrestled with how to liquidate InfoWars assets to satisfy the judgment. In 2024, the Supreme Court declined to hear Jones's appeal, leaving the judgment intact. As of 2026, Jones remains active on InfoWars and alternative platforms, continuing to broadcast conspiracy content while the Sandy Hook families await payment.

“Vaccines cause autism and are a tool of government control.”

The vaccine-autism link is a thoroughly debunked claim originating from fraudulent research. Dozens of large-scale population studies have found no causal link between any vaccine and autism. Jones has promoted this claim for decades to millions of listeners.

“The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax staged with 'crisis actors.'”

The 2012 Sandy Hook shooting killed 20 children and 6 adults and is extensively documented. Jones's claims subjected the victims' families to years of harassment and death threats. He was ordered to pay nearly $1.5 billion in defamation damages by courts in Texas and Connecticut.

“COVID-19 is part of a globalist 'New World Order' plot and that government-mandated treatments are population control.”

COVID-19 is a documented pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2. There is no credible evidence of a 'New World Order' plot. Jones's COVID misinformation, including promotion of unproven treatments and anti-vaccine propaganda, has been cited as contributing to vaccine hesitancy.