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Alexander Emerick Jones was born on the 11th of February 1974 in Dallas, Texas, and raised in the quiet suburb of Rockwall, just 25 miles east of the city. His father was a dentist from Austin and his mother was a homemaker, creating a middle-class upbringing that would eventually give way to a life of radical conspiracy.
Alex Jones repeatedly spread disproven conspiracy theories about the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, including claiming that it was a false flag operation perpetrated by gun control advocates, that no one died in Sandy Hook, and that the incident was staged, synthetic, manufactured, a giant hoax and completely fake with actors. He faced numerous defamation lawsuits due to these lies and was eventually found liable for defamation for willful non-compliance in failing to turn over documents to the families in line with court orders.
On the 12th of October 2022, the jury awarded 965 million to be shared by 15 plaintiffs, and on the 10th of November 2022, the judge awarded the plaintiffs a further 473 million in punitive damages in the form of lawyers' fees, bringing the total to over 1.4 billion. On the 14th of October 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal from Jones, leaving the 1.4 billion judgment in place.
On the 6th of August 2018, Facebook, Apple, YouTube and Spotify removed all content by Jones and InfoWars for policy violations. YouTube removed channels associated with InfoWars, Facebook removed four pages associated with InfoWars and Alex Jones, and Apple removed all podcasts associated with Jones from iTunes.
On the 24th of June 2024, the court-appointed trustee public revealed that he planned to shut down InfoWars, and on the 24th of September, the judge approved the sale of Free Speech Systems, the parent company of InfoWars. On the 13th of August 2025, Texas Judge Maya Guerra Gamble ordered Infowars assets to be turned over to a state receiver to be sold to pay the families.