Full Name: Emeric
Profession: Radio Host and Conspiracy Theorist
Biography: Alex Jones is an American radio host known as a prominent advocate of various conspiracy theories, both through The Alex Jones Show and his website, InfoWars.
He is best known for his comments regard the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the September 11 attacks, and the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting. Jones attributes many of these events to the machinations of shadowy organizations aiming to establish a 'New World Order.'
While Jones has criticized Republicans and Democrats alike, he supported Donald Trump's 2016 president campaign. He only later turned on Trump when he continued some of the same foreign and security policies as his predecessors.
Born: February 11, 1974
Birthplace: Dallas, Texas, USA
Age: 50 years old
Generation: Generation X
Chinese Zodiac: Tiger
Star Sign: Aquarius
Married Life
- 2015-12-31 TV presenter Alex Jones (38) weds Charlie Thomson in a magical ceremony at Cardiff Castle
Historical Events
- 2018-08-06 Facebook, Apple, YouTube and Spotify remove conspiracy theorist Alex Jones from their platforms
- 2019-05-02 Facebook bans Alex Jones (InfoWars), Milo Yiannopoulos (ex-Breitbart), Louis Farrakhan (Nation of Islam), Paul Nehlen and Laura Loomer for hate speech
- 2022-04-17 Alex Jones' companies including website Infowars, file for bankruptcy in the US after losing defamation suits filed by families of the Sandy Hook Massacre (which he called a hoax)
- 2022-08-04 Infowars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ordered to pay $4.1 million in compensatory damages to parents of child killed in Sandy Hook massacre after Jones claimed it was a hoax
- 2022-08-05 Jury in Austin, Texas decides 'Infowars' host Alex Jones should pay $45.2 million in punitive damages to parents of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victim due to his promotion of false conspiracy theories that the massacre was a hoax
- 2022-10-12 American conspiracy theorist, radio host, and provocateur Alex Jones ordered by a Connecticut defamation trial jury to pay $965 million to families of those killed in 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School for falsely and repeatedly claiming on his broadcasts that none of the 20 children and six adults killed had actually died and that their relatives were crisis actors
Biographies and Sources
- Alex Jones has been ordered to pay $1 billion over his Sandy Hook lies. Will he? - NPR
- Alex Jones Ordered To Pay $4.1 Million To Parents Of Sandy Hook Shooting Victim - Forbes
- How Alex Jones helped mainstream conspiracy theories become part of American life - NPR
- Jury finds Alex Jones caused $4 million in damages to two Sandy Hook parents - CNN
- Jury Hits Alex Jones With $45 Million In Punitive Damages Over Sandy Hook Conspiracy Claims - Forbes
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