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.
In Their Own Words (5)
Parasites will be crushed I can taste your weakness crushing crushing crushing.
"Give Us Stalin", 28 July 2014. , 2014
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'm like a chimpanzee, in a tree, jumping up and down, warning other chimpanzees when I see a big cat coming through the woods... I'm the weirdo? Because I'm sitting in a tree going "OOH OOH AAH AAH AAH OOH AAH AAH OOH OOH OOH AAH AAH AAH AAH AAH!"?
"Internet Wars Between TYT and Alex Jones", The Young Turks, 18 December 2009. , 2009
Get your shirt off... it's pervert time!
The Alex Jones Show, February 5, 2013. , 2013
It took me about a year with Sandy Hook to come to grips with the fact that the whole thing was fake. I mean, I couldn't believe it. I knew they jumped on it, used the crisis, hyped it up. But then I did deep research and my gosh, it just pretty much didn't happen.
The Alex Jones Show, 28 December 2014. , 2014
Timeline
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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.
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