Alexander Emerick Jones, a prominent[a] conspiracy theorist and host of far-right and alt-right radio shows in the United States, was born on February 11, 1974. From Austin, Texas, he hosts The Alex Jones Show, which is syndicated by the Genesis Communications Network across the country and online. Conspiracy theories and fake news are promoted on Jones’ website InfoWars as well as his other websites NewsWars and PrisonPlanet. By giving Unite the Right participant and white supremacist Nick Fuentes a platform on his website Banned.Video, Jones has given white supremacists a voice and support, acting as a “entry point” to their philosophy.
With regard to the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School mass massacre, the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the September 11 attacks, and the 1969 Moon landing, Jones’ conspiracy theories claimed that the US government either hid information about them or flat-out fabricated them. Several nations and large corporations, according to him, have conspired to establish a “New World Order” using “fabricated economic crises, cutting-edge monitoring technology, and—above all—inside-job terror operations that feed exploitable hysteria.”
Jones, a longtime opponent of Republican and Democratic foreign and security policy, supported Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016 and has continued to do so as the antidote to an alleged criminal bipartisan cabal that controls the government, despite differences with him on a number of issues, including his use of airstrikes against the Assad regime. A fervent supporter of Trump’s reelection, Jones backed the fabricated allegations of electoral fraud in the 2020 presidential election and spoke at a rally in support of Trump on January 6, 2021, which preceded the Trump supporters’ assault on the U.S. Capitol.
Early Life and Career
Jones was reared in the Dallas suburb of Rockwall after being born there on February 11th, 1974. His mother was a housewife and his father worked as a dentist. He claims ancestry from the Comanche, Welsh, English, and Irish. Jones’ family relocated to Austin during his second year of high school. He played football while a student at Anderson High School, where he also earned his diploma in 1993. Jones attended Austin Community College for a short time after graduation before leaving.
He read Gary Allen’s book None Dare Call It Conspiracy as a youngster, which purported that international bankers—rather than elected officials—controlled American politics.
It had a significant impact on him, and Jones called Allen’s work “the most accessible primer on The New
Broadcasting Career
In Austin, where he started his career, Jones worked on a public-access cable television program with a live call-in style. Jones transitioned to radio in 1996, anchoring a program called The Final Edition on KJFK (98.9 FM). Jones started talking about the New World Order conspiracy idea at this time after being influenced by radio personality William Cooper, who called in to Jones’s early shows.
Ron Paul frequently appeared as a guest on his program while he was a candidate for Congress
According to The Austin Chronicle readers’ poll for “Best Austin Talk Radio Host” in 1999, Jones and Shannon Burke tied for first place
He lost his job at KJFK-FM later that year because he wouldn’t extend his subject matter. According to the station’s operations manager.
Alex Jones ordered to pay $965 million for Sandy Hook lies
A jury in Connecticut concluded on Wednesday that conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay $965 million to those who were harmed by his false assertion that the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School was a fabrication.
The ruling is the second significant judgment against the Infowars host stemming from his steadfast support of the myths that the 2012 massacre never occurred and that the distraught relatives depicted in news reports were hired actors in a scheme to confiscate firearms.
They were being recorded at their residences by strangers. On social media, insulting comments were made. The murdered Sandy Hook school administrator Dawn Hochsprung’s daughter, Erica Lafferty, claimed that she received rape threats in the mail. The burial of Mark Barden’s son Daniel, age 7, was urinated on by conspiracy theorists, who also threatened to remove the coffin, according to Mark Barden.
Jones admitted during testimony that he had been mistaken about Sandy Hook. He asserted that the shooting was actual. He was, however, obstinate both in the courtroom and on his show.
