Short answers, pulled from the story.
Alex Jones is an American far-right radio host and conspiracy theorist born on the 11th of February 1974, in Dallas, Texas. He founded InfoWars in 1999 as a platform for conspiracy theories and fake news, which by November 2016 was receiving approximately 10 million monthly visits.
Juries in Connecticut and Texas awarded a combined total of $1.487 billion against Jones for defamatory falsehoods about the Sandy Hook shooting. The Connecticut Appellate Court later reduced that figure to approximately $1.2 billion, and the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Jones's appeal on the 14th of October 2025.
Jones filed for Chapter 11 personal bankruptcy on the 2nd of December 2022, claiming assets between $1 million and $10 million and debts between $1 billion and $10 billion. In June 2024, his bankruptcy was converted to Chapter 7 liquidation.
Trump appeared on The Alex Jones Show on the 2nd of December 2015, and Jones actively supported his 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns. Jones helped raise at least $650,000 to fund the 6th of January 2021 rally that preceded the Capitol attack. The relationship repeatedly broke down over policy disputes, including Trump's Syria airstrikes in 2018 and his encouragement of COVID-19 vaccination in 2021.
On the 6th of August 2018, Facebook, Apple, YouTube, and Spotify simultaneously removed Jones and InfoWars for policy violations including dehumanizing content targeting immigrants, Muslims, and transgender people, as well as glorification of violence. Jones was permanently banned from Twitter in September 2018 but was reinstated on the 10th of December 2023 by Elon Musk.
From September 2015 through the end of 2018, the InfoWars store made $165 million in sales, according to court filings in the Sandy Hook lawsuits. By 2014, InfoWars revenues exceeded $20 million per year, with roughly two-thirds of Jones's funds derived from product sales rather than advertising.