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. As a teenager, Jones read None Dare Call It Conspiracy, a book by Gary Allen of the John Birch Society, which alleged that global bankers controlled American politics rather than elected officials. This text became the foundation of his worldview, and Jones later described it as the easiest-to-read primer on the New World Order. The Waco siege, which ended in April 1993 with a massive fire and significant loss of life, deeply impacted him. He viewed the event as confirmation of unseen, malevolent forces at work, and it was around this time that he began hosting a call-in show on public access television in Austin. The Oklahoma City bombing on the 19th of April 1995 further cemented his beliefs. Jones began accusing the federal government of orchestrating the attack, claiming that Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were merely pawns in a larger game. He did not believe the bombing was the responsibility of the perpetrators, but rather a response to the federal involvement in Waco. In 1998, Jones organized a successful campaign to build a new Branch Davidian church as a memorial to those who died during the 1993 fire, often discussing the project on his public-access television program. He claimed that David Koresh and his followers were peaceful people who were murdered by Attorney General Janet Reno and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms during the siege.
The Radio King Of Lies
Jones began his career in Austin working on a live, call-in format public-access cable television program before switching to radio in 1996, hosting a show named The Final Edition on KJFK. Influenced by radio host William Cooper, who phoned in to Jones's early shows, Jones began to broadcast about the New World Order conspiracy theory at this time. While running for Congress, Ron Paul was a guest on his show several times, and in 1999, Jones tied with Shannon Burke for that year's poll of Best Austin Talk Radio Host, as voted by readers of The Austin Chronicle. Later that year, he was fired from KJFK-FM for refusing to broaden his topics, with the station's operations manager saying that Jones's views made it difficult for the station to sell advertising. After his firing, Jones began to broadcast his own show by Internet connection from his home. In July 2000, a group of Austin Community Access Center radio hosts claimed that Jones had used legal proceedings and ACAC policy to intimidate them or try to get their broadcasts removed. In 2001, Jones's radio show was syndicated on approximately 100 stations. On the day of the 9/11 attacks, Jones said on his radio show there was a 98 percent chance this was a government-orchestrated controlled bombing. He began promoting the conspiracy theory that the Bush administration was behind the attack, and as a result, several stations dropped Jones's program. He became a leading figure of the 9/11 truther cause. In 2010, the show attracted around two million listeners each week, and by 2011, Jones had a larger on-line audience than Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh combined. In 2020, The Alex Jones Show was syndicated nationally by the Genesis Communications Network to more than 100 AM and FM radio stations in the United States. The syndicator announced its shutdown effective the 5th of May 2024, citing financial losses, with owners planning to migrate Jones's show to other networks.The Business Of Paranoia
In 1999, Jones founded with his then-wife Kelly Jones the website InfoWars, initially as a mail-order outlet for the sale of their conspiracy-oriented videos. Jones used the company to release films, such as America Destroyed by Design and America Wake Up Or Waco. Over time, InfoWars became a prominent fake news website centered on promoting conspiracy theories. In November 2016, the InfoWars website received approximately 10 million visits, making its reach more extensive than mainstream news websites such as The Economist and Newsweek. A 2017 piece for German magazine Der Spiegel by Veit Medick indicated that two-thirds of Jones's funds derive from sales of his own products. These products are marketed through the InfoWars website and through advertising spots on Jones's show, including dietary supplements, toothpaste, bulletproof vests and brain pills, which hold an appeal for anyone who believes Armageddon is near. From September 2015 to the end of 2018, the InfoWars store made 165 million in sales, according to court filings relating to the Sandy Hook lawsuits filed against Jones. In August 2017, Californian medical company Labdoor, Inc reported on tests applied to six of Jones's dietary supplement products. These included a product named Survival Shield, which was found by Labdoor to contain only iodine, and a product named Oxy-Powder, which comprised a compound of magnesium oxide and citric acid. Labdoor indicated no evidence of prohibited or harmful substances, but cast doubt on the marketing claims for these products, and asserted that the quantity of the ingredients in certain products would be too low to be appropriately effective. On a 2017 segment of Last Week Tonight, host John Oliver stated that Jones spends nearly a quarter of his on-air time promoting products sold on his website, many of which are purported solutions to medical and economic problems claimed to be caused by the conspiracy theories described on the show. Research commissioned in 2017 by the Center for Environmental Health determined that two products sold by Jones contained potentially dangerous levels of the heavy metal lead. Jones continued his promotion of supplements during the COVID-19 pandemic, and on the 12th of March 2020, he was issued a cease and desist from the Attorney General of New York, after he claimed, in the absence of any evidence, that products he sold, including colloidal silver toothpaste, were an effective treatment for COVID-19. The Food and Drug Administration also sent him a letter on the 9th of April 2020, warning that the federal government might proceed to seize the products he was marketing for COVID-19 or fine him if he continued to sell them. A disclaimer then appeared on Jones's website, stating his products were not intended for treating the novel coronavirus. On a linked page, Jones was quoted saying they plan on, if they've fluoridated you and vaccinated you and stunned you and mesmerized you with the TV and put you in a trance, on killing you. Jones continued to sell the products. According to leaked text messages from Jones's mobile phone, InfoWars sold VasoBeet, a product it described as a powerful beet formula, at a 900 percent retail markup as of September 2019. On the 29th of January 2020, InfoWars pulled in 245,000 in food sales, a day after Jones stoked fear about food shortages caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in a broadcast. During the April 2022 InfoWars bankruptcy hearing, Jones's representative stated, InfoWars is a prominent trademark in the conspiracy theory community and Alex Jones is equally as prominent. He added that Jones's name was the Coca-Cola of the conspiracy theory community.The Platform Of Hate
In February 2018, YouTube issued a strike against the InfoWars channel after a video was posted in which Alex Jones accused David Hogg, a survivor of the Parkland school shooting, of being a paid crisis actor. YouTube removed the video for violating its policies against harassment and bullying. On the 24th of July 2018, YouTube removed four InfoWars videos citing child endangerment and hate speech, issued another strike against the channel, and suspended the ability to live stream. On the 27th of July 2018, Facebook suspended Jones's profile for 30 days, and removed the same videos, saying they violated the website's standards against hate speech and bullying. On the 3rd of August 2018, Stitcher Radio removed all of his podcasts, citing harassment. Later that year, 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, including The Alex Jones Channel, stating that InfoWars had repeatedly attempted to post content similar to that which had already been removed, as well as attempting to circumvent the suspension of its live streaming privileges by having other users live stream on its behalf. On Facebook, four pages associated with InfoWars and Alex Jones were removed over repeated policy violations. Apple removed all podcasts associated with Jones from iTunes. Facebook cited instances of dehumanizing immigrants, Muslims and transgender people, as well as glorification of violence, as examples of hate speech. After InfoWars was banned from Facebook, Jones used another of his websites, NewsWars, to circumvent the ban. On the 13th of August 2018, Vimeo removed all of Jones's videos because of prohibitions on discriminatory and hateful content. Jones's accounts were also removed from Pinterest, Mailchimp and LinkedIn. Jones retained active accounts on Instagram, Google+ and Twitter. Jones tweeted a Periscope video calling on others to get their battle rifles ready against antifa, the mainstream media, and Chicom operatives. In the video, he says, Now is time to act on the enemy before they do a false flag. Twitter cited this as the reason to suspend his account for a week in August 2018. In September, Jones was permanently banned from Twitter and Periscope after comments about CNN reporter Oliver Darcy. On the 7th of September 2018, the InfoWars app was removed from the Apple App Store for objectionable content. He was banned from using PayPal for business transactions, having violated the company's policies by expressing hate or discriminatory intolerance against certain communities and religions. After Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter, several previously banned accounts were reinstated including Donald Trump, Andrew Tate and Ye, but Jones was not among them. In November 2022, Musk referred to Jones as a person who would use the deaths of children for gain, politics or fame and said Jones would not be unbanned. He changed his position on the 10th of December 2023, when he reinstated Jones's account citing that if Jones said something false, Community Notes would correct him. InfoWars remained available on Roku devices, in January 2019, a year after the channel's removal from multiple streaming services. Roku indicated that they do not curate or censor based on viewpoint, and that it had policies against content that is unlawful, incited illegal activities, or violates third-party rights, but that InfoWars was not in violation of these policies. Following a social media backlash, Roku removed InfoWars and stated, After the InfoWars channel became available, we heard from concerned parties and have determined that the channel should be removed from our platform. In March 2019, YouTube terminated the Resistance News channel due to its reuploading of live streams from InfoWars. On the 1st of May 2019, Jones was barred from using both Facebook and Instagram. Jones briefly moved to Dlive, but was suspended in April 2019 for violating community guidelines. In March 2020, the InfoWars app was removed from the Google Play store due to Jones disseminating COVID-19 misinformation. A Google spokesperson stated that combating misinformation on the Play Store is a top priority for the team and apps that violate Play policy by distributing misleading or harmful information are removed from the store. Comedian Joe Rogan attracted controversy for hosting Jones on his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, in October 2020. The episode was made available on YouTube and Spotify in spite of Jones's ban from both platforms. Though Rogan occasionally fact-checked Jones throughout the course of the interview, he nonetheless faced backlash from critics for giving Jones a platform to spread misinformation and validate his views. A YouTube spokesman responded that YouTube reviewed the episode and determined it did not violate the site's guidelines, noting that YouTube bans channels rather than individuals. In March 2023, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported on Jones's leaked texts from his Sandy Hook defamation trial. The texts revealed that Jones and his collaborators had been trying to evade social media bans of InfoWars content by setting up alternate websites such as National File to disguise its origin. In May 2023, Jones guest hosted Steven Crowder's podcast Louder with Crowder. Crowder's channel was subsequently suspended by YouTube for facilitating ban evasion by Jones. In September 2025, after YouTube's parent company and Jim Jordan announced that all channels previously suspended for any form of political content violation would have the opportunity to be reinstated, Jones created a new channel on YouTube. Jones' new channel was suspended hours after creation. YouTube later stated that they had not started their program to reinstate users at that time.The January 6 Rally
Jones partially funded and raised other funds to finance the January 6 Trump rally in Washington, D.C., that preceded the 2021 United States Capitol attack. The New York Times reported he assisted in raising at least 650,000 from Julie Fancelli, a Publix grocery chain heiress who is a follower of InfoWars, to finance Trump's rally on the Ellipse, including 200,000 of the total amount deposited in one of Jones's bank accounts. Jones attended the January 5 and 6 rallies at the Capitol. On January 5, he was a scheduled speaker at the March to Save America and said, We have only begun to resist the globalists. We have only begun our fight against their tyranny. They have tried to steal this election in front of everyone. Jones also stated that I don't know how this is all going to end, but if they want to fight, they better believe they've got one, according to the same video. Jones called Joe Biden a slave of Satan and said, Whatever happens to President Trump in 15 days, he is still the elected president of this republic. And we do not recognize the Communist Chinese agent Joe Biden, or his controllers. The next day, Wednesday, January 6, at a gathering in Lafayette Park north of the Capitol, he addressed the crowd with a bullhorn, and stated that he had seen over a hundred members of antifa in the crowd, a baseless assertion other Trump supporters had also made, although the FBI said there was no evidence of antifa involvement. The same day, a video of Jones was posted on InfoWars, in which he is recorded saying, We declare 1776 against the new world order. We need to understand we're under attack, and we need to understand this is 21st-century warfare and get on a war-footing. In the same video, before setting off toward the Capitol building, Jones told the crowd, We're here to take our rightful country back peacefully, because we're not globalist, antifa criminals. So let's start marching, and I salute you all. When rioters attacked the Capitol, Jones called on them to stop. Let's not fight the police and give the system what they want, he said. In February 2021, The Washington Post reported that the FBI was investigating any role Jones might have played in influencing the participation of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers in the incursion. Jones had previously hosted leaders of the two groups on his programs. Some members of the groups had been indicted for conspiracy in the incident. On the 22nd of November 2021, the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack subpoenaed Jones for testimony and documents by December 18 and 6, respectively. He had a virtual meeting with the committee by video link on the 24th of January 2022. By the estimate of his legal team, Jones said, he pleaded the Fifth Amendment 100 times and had been instructed to do so by his counsel. On the 5th of August 2022, during a defamation trial in Texas brought by Sandy Hook school shooting parents against Jones, a lawyer for the plaintiffs revealed that Jones's lawyer had inadvertently sent him two years of texts from Jones's phone. On the 8th of August, the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack received those text messages; they had requested the information since Jones had helped organize a rally before the Capitol attack. Jones's lawyer, Norm Pattis, had also released confidential discovery items including Sandy Hook plaintiffs' medical records, and consequently, in January 2023, a judge suspended his law license. At the time of his license suspension, Pattis was part of the legal team defending Proud Boys leader Joseph Biggs against charges of seditious conspiracy. On the 12th of September 2023, Owen Shroyer, an InfoWars co-host who accompanied Jones to the capital on the 6th of January 2021, was sentenced to thirty days in prison for violating an active order to stay away from the Capitol grounds. He had received the order after previously being arrested for causing a disturbance in another governmental building.The Billion Dollar Verdict
Jones has 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. Jones faced numerous defamation lawsuits due to these lies. On the 16th of April 2018, Leonard Pozner and Veronique De La Rosa, parents of victim Noah Pozner, filed a defamation suit against Jones, Infowars and Free Speech Systems in Travis County, Texas. Pozner, who has been forced to move several times to avoid harassment and death threats, was accused by Jones of being a crisis actor. On the 16th of April 2018, Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, parents of victim Jesse Lewis, filed a defamation suit against Jones, Infowars and Free Speech Systems in Travis County, Texas. Jones was found to be in contempt of court even before the trial started as a result of his failure to produce witnesses and materials relevant to the procedures. Consequently, Jones and Infowars were fined a total of 126,000 in October and December 2019. On the 22nd of January 2021, the Texas Supreme Court threw out an appeal for dismissal by Jones of four defamation lawsuits from families of Sandy Hook victims. The court allowed the judgments of two lower courts to stand without comment, allowing the lawsuits to continue. On the 27th of September 2021, a district judge in Texas issued three default judgments against Jones, requiring him to pay all damages in two lawsuits. These rulings came after Jones repeatedly failed to hand over documents and evidence as ordered by the court, which the judge characterized as flagrant bad faith and callous disregard for the responsibilities of discovery under the rules. The jury trial began in Texas on the 25th of July 2022, where the plaintiffs' attorney said they would seek 150 million from the jury. Heslin testified on the 2nd of August that conspiracy theorists, fueled by Jones's statements, fired into his house and car and subjected him and his family to harassment. He said Jones's failure to attend court during his testimony was a cowardly act. While Heslin was testifying, Jones was broadcasting his show, calling Heslin slow and manipulated by some very bad people. Jones subsequently arrived at court to present his testimony, first sitting through that of Jesse's mother Scarlett Lewis. Lewis said, Alex, I want you to hear this. We're more polarized than ever as a country. Some of that is because of you. She asked Jones, Do you think I'm an actor? Jones responded, No, I don't think you're an actor. As the only person testifying in his defense, Jones admitted the Sandy Hook shooting was 100 percent real, and agreed with his own attorney that it was absolutely irresponsible to push falsehoods about the shooting and its victims. Jones testified that he had complied with court orders in defamation suits and is bankrupt. On the 3rd of August, cross-examination revealed that Jones had not fully complied with court orders to provide text messages and emails for pretrial evidence gathering. Judge Maya Guerra Gamble of Travis County District Court admonished him for lying under oath, as his failure to comply with court orders was the reason he lost the defamation suits, and that bankruptcy proceedings had yet to be adjudicated. Gamble said, You're under oath. That means things must actually be true when you say them. After the judge left the courtroom, Jones said Lewis and Heslin were being controlled. While the jury deliberated the amount of compensatory damages, Jones was claiming on his radio show that the proceedings were an incredible spectacle backed by globalists trying to shut him down. On the 4th of August 2022, the jury ordered Jones pay Heslin and Lewis 4.1 million in compensatory damages, and the following day, he was ordered to pay an additional 45.2 million in punitive damages. On the 22nd of November 2022, a judge ruled that Jones must pay the full amount of the punitive damages, even though this amount exceeds a cap under Texas law. Jones's attorneys had estimated the punitive damages award would be reduced to 1.5 million, while the plaintiffs' attorneys had expected it to be reduced to 4.5 million. On the 25th of April 2023, Judge Gamble ordered Jones's attorney, Andino Reynal, to pay 97,169 to Heslin and Lewis for his bad-faith attempts to delay the trial, with a contingency fee of 55,000 should Reynal appeal and lose, and 61,600 if he appeals to the Texas Supreme Court and loses. On the 26th of June 2018, seven families of victims and an FBI agent who responded to the attack filed a defamation lawsuit in Connecticut Superior Court against Jones, Infowars, Free Speech Systems, Infowars Health and others for spreading false claims, resulting in the harassment, stalking and threatening of the plaintiffs. By February 2019, the plaintiffs won a series of court rulings requiring Jones to testify under oath. Jones was later ordered to undergo a sworn deposition, along with three other defendants related to the operation of Infowars. He was also ordered to turn over internal business documents related to Infowars. In this deposition in the last week of March 2019, Jones acknowledged the deaths were real, stating he had almost like a form of psychosis, where he basically thought everything was staged. On the 25th of March 2019, Jeremy Richman, one of the plaintiffs, whose daughter Avielle was killed, committed suicide. Jones, through his lawyer, offered condolences to Richman's family, but later that day on his show suggested that Richman had been murdered and that his death had something to do with special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election interference. On the 5th of April 2021, the Supreme Court of the United States declined to hear an appeal by Jones against a court sanction in the lawsuit. On the 15th of November 2021, the judge found Jones liable by default for defamation, for willful non-compliance in failing to turn over documents to the families in line with court orders. On the 29th of March 2022, Jones offered a settlement of 120,000 to each of the thirteen people involved in the lawsuits, which was quickly rejected. On the 2nd of June 2022, Jones's attorneys asked the judge to drop them from the case. The judge said she had heard this before, citing thirteen times in the past four years when Jones's attorneys asked to replace each other or be dropped from the case. She ordered them to continue to represent Jones until she ruled on the motion on the 15th of June. On the 12th of October 2022, the jury awarded 965 million to be shared by 15 plaintiffs (eight families and one first responder). The plaintiffs' individual awards ranged from 28.8 million to 120 million. During the trial, the families testified that they had been threatened and harassed over years due to Jones's falsehoods. Jones reacted live to the verdict on his show, mocking it, Do these people actually think they're getting any money? He implored his viewers to donate to him to appeal, and also declared that the jury's verdict was an attempt to scare us away from questioning school shootings such as the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting and the Robb Elementary School shooting, but we're not going to stop. 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. The judge also issued an order that Jones was not to transfer, encumber, dispose or move his assets out of the United States until further order of the court. Jones moved for a new trial, but on the 22nd of December 2022, the judge denied his request. By the end of the summer of 2023, Jones had paid nothing to the families. On the 6th of December 2024, the Connecticut Appellate Court reduced the total Jones owed to about 1.2 billion. It did this by affirming the jury's 965 million verdict while saying that Jones would not have to pay the 150 million in punitive damages that the lower court had awarded the plaintiffs. Jones sought to appeal to the state's Supreme Court, but on the 8th of April 2025 it declined to hear his appeal. On the 24th of July 2018, William Sherlach, husband of victim and school psychologist Mary Sherlach, filed a defamation lawsuit in Connecticut Superior Court against Jones, Infowars, Free Speech Systems and Infowars Health. Sherlach's lawsuit was consolidated into the Lafferty et al. vs. Jones lawsuit for the Connecticut trial. On the 6th of April 2022, according to the Associated Press and The Daily Beast, a lawsuit was filed in Austin, Texas, by some of the Sandy Hook families accusing Jones of hiding assets worth millions of dollars after he began being sued for defamation by the families of Sandy Hook victims. The suit claims Jones conspired to divert his assets to shell companies owned by insiders like his parents, his children, and himself. The lawsuit alleges Jones drew 18 million from the Infowars company beginning in 2018 and accuses Jones of claiming a dubious 54 million debt at about the same time to another company alleged by the lawsuit to be also owned by Jones. Norm Pattis, an attorney for Jones, said the lawsuit was ridiculous and denied that there had been any attempt to conceal assets. On the 17th of April 2022, three companies owned by Jones filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, suspending further civil litigation claims, as the families had sued Jones as well as his companies. The three companies affected were InfoW, Prison Planet TV, and IWHealth. The court filings estimated InfoWars assets at between 0 and 50,000, but its liabilities were stated as being between 1 million and 10 million. Regarding why Jones did not personally file for bankruptcy, his representative stated, It would ruin his name and harm his ability to sell merchandise and Putting him in bankruptcy would harm his trademark value in terms of cashflow. A lawyer for the families involved in a Connecticut lawsuit against Jones responded, Alex Jones is just delaying the inevitable: a public trial in which he will be held accountable for his profit-driven campaign of lies against the Sandy Hook families who have brought this lawsuit. On the 10th of June 2022, a federal judge in Texas dismissed the bankruptcy protection case after Jones and the families agreed that the three companies would be dropped from the defamation lawsuits against Jones, allowing them to continue in Texas and Connecticut. On the 29th of July 2022, the parent company of InfoWars, Free Speech Systems, LLC, filed for bankruptcy. In response to the Connecticut legal settlement made against him, Jones had previously claimed assets of 6.2 million in January 2022. On the 2nd of December 2022, Jones filed for Chapter 11 personal bankruptcy in the Southern District of Texas, claiming that his assets were between 1 million and 10 million, while his debts were between 1 billion and 10 billion. He also claimed that he had 50 to 99 creditors, and in February 2023, that the Department of Justice intended to seize his pet cat, valued at 2,000, to pay debts owed to the Sandy Hook families. On the 19th of October 2023, a Texas bankruptcy judge ruled that Jones cannot rely on bankruptcy protection to avoid paying the 1.5 billion he owes to the Sandy Hook families as a result of the Connecticut lawsuit. It remained unclear whether he would be able to reduce the amount of punitive damages in the Texas case. In November 2023, the Sandy Hook families offered a settlement in which Jones would pay 85 million over 10 years, about 6 percent of what he had been court-ordered to pay. The following month, Jones countered with an offer of 55 million over 10 years. In February 2024, Jones's general unsecured creditors voted in favor of a Chapter 11 plan that would liquidate and redistribute his assets. Appearing emotional and defiant, on the 1st of June 2024, Jones said on his program, At the end of the day, we're going to beat these people. I'm not trying to be dramatic here, but it's been a hard fight. These people hate our children. The next day, the families filed an emergency motion in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Houston, asking the judge to liquidate Alex Jones's company rather than allow him to reorganize it. The court filing said Jones has failed to demonstrate any hope of beginning to satisfy their claims. On the 6th of June, Jones's attorneys filed a motion to convert his bankruptcy to Chapter 7 status, which would lead to liquidation of his personal assets, including his stake in InfoWars, which was agreed to by the plaintiffs the following day. On the 14th of June, the judge approved the Chapter 7 liquidation. On the 24th of June, the court-appointed trustee public revealed that he planned to shut down InfoWars. On the 24th of September, the judge approved the sale of Free Speech Systems, the parent company of InfoWars. The auction was scheduled for the 13th of November. 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. With the Onion reportedly renewing its efforts in Texas state court to acquire InfoWars, Jones asked the court on the 9th of October to halt proceedings. On the 14th of October 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal from Jones, leaving the 1.4 billion judgment in place. This appeal was separate from his appeal in Texas of a 49 million defamation judgment also related to a Sandy Hook victim.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. As a teenager, Jones read None Dare Call It Conspiracy, a book by Gary Allen of the John Birch Society, which alleged that global bankers controlled American politics rather than elected officials. This text became the foundation of his worldview, and Jones later described it as the easiest-to-read primer on the New World Order. The Waco siege, which ended in April 1993 with a massive fire and significant loss of life, deeply impacted him. He viewed the event as confirmation of unseen, malevolent forces at work, and it was around this time that he began hosting a call-in show on public access television in Austin. The Oklahoma City bombing on the 19th of April 1995 further cemented his beliefs. Jones began accusing the federal government of orchestrating the attack, claiming that Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were merely pawns in a larger game. He did not believe the bombing was the responsibility of the perpetrators, but rather a response to the federal involvement in Waco. In 1998, Jones organized a successful campaign to build a new Branch Davidian church as a memorial to those who died during the 1993 fire, often discussing the project on his public-access television program. He claimed that David Koresh and his followers were peaceful people who were murdered by Attorney General Janet Reno and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms during the siege.
The Radio King Of Lies
Jones began his career in Austin working on a live, call-in format public-access cable television program before switching to radio in 1996, hosting a show named The Final Edition on KJFK. Influenced by radio host William Cooper, who phoned in to Jones's early shows, Jones began to broadcast about the New World Order conspiracy theory at this time. While running for Congress, Ron Paul was a guest on his show several times, and in 1999, Jones tied with Shannon Burke for that year's poll of Best Austin Talk Radio Host, as voted by readers of The Austin Chronicle. Later that year, he was fired from KJFK-FM for refusing to broaden his topics, with the station's operations manager saying that Jones's views made it difficult for the station to sell advertising. After his firing, Jones began to broadcast his own show by Internet connection from his home. In July 2000, a group of Austin Community Access Center radio hosts claimed that Jones had used legal proceedings and ACAC policy to intimidate them or try to get their broadcasts removed. In 2001, Jones's radio show was syndicated on approximately 100 stations. On the day of the 9/11 attacks, Jones said on his radio show there was a 98 percent chance this was a government-orchestrated controlled bombing. He began promoting the conspiracy theory that the Bush administration was behind the attack, and as a result, several stations dropped Jones's program. He became a leading figure of the 9/11 truther cause. In 2010, the show attracted around two million listeners each week, and by 2011, Jones had a larger on-line audience than Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh combined. In 2020, The Alex Jones Show was syndicated nationally by the Genesis Communications Network to more than 100 AM and FM radio stations in the United States. The syndicator announced its shutdown effective the 5th of May 2024, citing financial losses, with owners planning to migrate Jones's show to other networks.
The Business Of Paranoia
In 1999, Jones founded with his then-wife Kelly Jones the website InfoWars, initially as a mail-order outlet for the sale of their conspiracy-oriented videos. Jones used the company to release films, such as America Destroyed by Design and America Wake Up Or Waco. Over time, InfoWars became a prominent fake news website centered on promoting conspiracy theories. In November 2016, the InfoWars website received approximately 10 million visits, making its reach more extensive than mainstream news websites such as The Economist and Newsweek. A 2017 piece for German magazine Der Spiegel by Veit Medick indicated that two-thirds of Jones's funds derive from sales of his own products. These products are marketed through the InfoWars website and through advertising spots on Jones's show, including dietary supplements, toothpaste, bulletproof vests and brain pills, which hold an appeal for anyone who believes Armageddon is near. From September 2015 to the end of 2018, the InfoWars store made 165 million in sales, according to court filings relating to the Sandy Hook lawsuits filed against Jones. In August 2017, Californian medical company Labdoor, Inc reported on tests applied to six of Jones's dietary supplement products. These included a product named Survival Shield, which was found by Labdoor to contain only iodine, and a product named Oxy-Powder, which comprised a compound of magnesium oxide and citric acid. Labdoor indicated no evidence of prohibited or harmful substances, but cast doubt on the marketing claims for these products, and asserted that the quantity of the ingredients in certain products would be too low to be appropriately effective. On a 2017 segment of Last Week Tonight, host John Oliver stated that Jones spends nearly a quarter of his on-air time promoting products sold on his website, many of which are purported solutions to medical and economic problems claimed to be caused by the conspiracy theories described on the show. Research commissioned in 2017 by the Center for Environmental Health determined that two products sold by Jones contained potentially dangerous levels of the heavy metal lead. Jones continued his promotion of supplements during the COVID-19 pandemic, and on the 12th of March 2020, he was issued a cease and desist from the Attorney General of New York, after he claimed, in the absence of any evidence, that products he sold, including colloidal silver toothpaste, were an effective treatment for COVID-19. The Food and Drug Administration also sent him a letter on the 9th of April 2020, warning that the federal government might proceed to seize the products he was marketing for COVID-19 or fine him if he continued to sell them. A disclaimer then appeared on Jones's website, stating his products were not intended for treating the novel coronavirus. On a linked page, Jones was quoted saying they plan on, if they've fluoridated you and vaccinated you and stunned you and mesmerized you with the TV and put you in a trance, on killing you. Jones continued to sell the products. According to leaked text messages from Jones's mobile phone, InfoWars sold VasoBeet, a product it described as a powerful beet formula, at a 900 percent retail markup as of September 2019. On the 29th of January 2020, InfoWars pulled in 245,000 in food sales, a day after Jones stoked fear about food shortages caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in a broadcast. During the April 2022 InfoWars bankruptcy hearing, Jones's representative stated, InfoWars is a prominent trademark in the conspiracy theory community and Alex Jones is equally as prominent. He added that Jones's name was the Coca-Cola of the conspiracy theory community.
The Platform Of Hate
In February 2018, YouTube issued a strike against the InfoWars channel after a video was posted in which Alex Jones accused David Hogg, a survivor of the Parkland school shooting, of being a paid crisis actor. YouTube removed the video for violating its policies against harassment and bullying. On the 24th of July 2018, YouTube removed four InfoWars videos citing child endangerment and hate speech, issued another strike against the channel, and suspended the ability to live stream. On the 27th of July 2018, Facebook suspended Jones's profile for 30 days, and removed the same videos, saying they violated the website's standards against hate speech and bullying. On the 3rd of August 2018, Stitcher Radio removed all of his podcasts, citing harassment. Later that year, 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, including The Alex Jones Channel, stating that InfoWars had repeatedly attempted to post content similar to that which had already been removed, as well as attempting to circumvent the suspension of its live streaming privileges by having other users live stream on its behalf. On Facebook, four pages associated with InfoWars and Alex Jones were removed over repeated policy violations. Apple removed all podcasts associated with Jones from iTunes. Facebook cited instances of dehumanizing immigrants, Muslims and transgender people, as well as glorification of violence, as examples of hate speech. After InfoWars was banned from Facebook, Jones used another of his websites, NewsWars, to circumvent the ban. On the 13th of August 2018, Vimeo removed all of Jones's videos because of prohibitions on discriminatory and hateful content. Jones's accounts were also removed from Pinterest, Mailchimp and LinkedIn. Jones retained active accounts on Instagram, Google+ and Twitter. Jones tweeted a Periscope video calling on others to get their battle rifles ready against antifa, the mainstream media, and Chicom operatives. In the video, he says, Now is time to act on the enemy before they do a false flag. Twitter cited this as the reason to suspend his account for a week in August 2018. In September, Jones was permanently banned from Twitter and Periscope after comments about CNN reporter Oliver Darcy. On the 7th of September 2018, the InfoWars app was removed from the Apple App Store for objectionable content. He was banned from using PayPal for business transactions, having violated the company's policies by expressing hate or discriminatory intolerance against certain communities and religions. After Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter, several previously banned accounts were reinstated including Donald Trump, Andrew Tate and Ye, but Jones was not among them. In November 2022, Musk referred to Jones as a person who would use the deaths of children for gain, politics or fame and said Jones would not be unbanned. He changed his position on the 10th of December 2023, when he reinstated Jones's account citing that if Jones said something false, Community Notes would correct him. InfoWars remained available on Roku devices, in January 2019, a year after the channel's removal from multiple streaming services. Roku indicated that they do not curate or censor based on viewpoint, and that it had policies against content that is unlawful, incited illegal activities, or violates third-party rights, but that InfoWars was not in violation of these policies. Following a social media backlash, Roku removed InfoWars and stated, After the InfoWars channel became available, we heard from concerned parties and have determined that the channel should be removed from our platform. In March 2019, YouTube terminated the Resistance News channel due to its reuploading of live streams from InfoWars. On the 1st of May 2019, Jones was barred from using both Facebook and Instagram. Jones briefly moved to Dlive, but was suspended in April 2019 for violating community guidelines. In March 2020, the InfoWars app was removed from the Google Play store due to Jones disseminating COVID-19 misinformation. A Google spokesperson stated that combating misinformation on the Play Store is a top priority for the team and apps that violate Play policy by distributing misleading or harmful information are removed from the store. Comedian Joe Rogan attracted controversy for hosting Jones on his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, in October 2020. The episode was made available on YouTube and Spotify in spite of Jones's ban from both platforms. Though Rogan occasionally fact-checked Jones throughout the course of the interview, he nonetheless faced backlash from critics for giving Jones a platform to spread misinformation and validate his views. A YouTube spokesman responded that YouTube reviewed the episode and determined it did not violate the site's guidelines, noting that YouTube bans channels rather than individuals. In March 2023, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported on Jones's leaked texts from his Sandy Hook defamation trial. The texts revealed that Jones and his collaborators had been trying to evade social media bans of InfoWars content by setting up alternate websites such as National File to disguise its origin. In May 2023, Jones guest hosted Steven Crowder's podcast Louder with Crowder. Crowder's channel was subsequently suspended by YouTube for facilitating ban evasion by Jones. In September 2025, after YouTube's parent company and Jim Jordan announced that all channels previously suspended for any form of political content violation would have the opportunity to be reinstated, Jones created a new channel on YouTube. Jones' new channel was suspended hours after creation. YouTube later stated that they had not started their program to reinstate users at that time.
The January 6 Rally
Jones partially funded and raised other funds to finance the January 6 Trump rally in Washington, D.C., that preceded the 2021 United States Capitol attack. The New York Times reported he assisted in raising at least 650,000 from Julie Fancelli, a Publix grocery chain heiress who is a follower of InfoWars, to finance Trump's rally on the Ellipse, including 200,000 of the total amount deposited in one of Jones's bank accounts. Jones attended the January 5 and 6 rallies at the Capitol. On January 5, he was a scheduled speaker at the March to Save America and said, We have only begun to resist the globalists. We have only begun our fight against their tyranny. They have tried to steal this election in front of everyone. Jones also stated that I don't know how this is all going to end, but if they want to fight, they better believe they've got one, according to the same video. Jones called Joe Biden a slave of Satan and said, Whatever happens to President Trump in 15 days, he is still the elected president of this republic. And we do not recognize the Communist Chinese agent Joe Biden, or his controllers. The next day, Wednesday, January 6, at a gathering in Lafayette Park north of the Capitol, he addressed the crowd with a bullhorn, and stated that he had seen over a hundred members of antifa in the crowd, a baseless assertion other Trump supporters had also made, although the FBI said there was no evidence of antifa involvement. The same day, a video of Jones was posted on InfoWars, in which he is recorded saying, We declare 1776 against the new world order. We need to understand we're under attack, and we need to understand this is 21st-century warfare and get on a war-footing. In the same video, before setting off toward the Capitol building, Jones told the crowd, We're here to take our rightful country back peacefully, because we're not globalist, antifa criminals. So let's start marching, and I salute you all. When rioters attacked the Capitol, Jones called on them to stop. Let's not fight the police and give the system what they want, he said. In February 2021, The Washington Post reported that the FBI was investigating any role Jones might have played in influencing the participation of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers in the incursion. Jones had previously hosted leaders of the two groups on his programs. Some members of the groups had been indicted for conspiracy in the incident. On the 22nd of November 2021, the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack subpoenaed Jones for testimony and documents by December 18 and 6, respectively. He had a virtual meeting with the committee by video link on the 24th of January 2022. By the estimate of his legal team, Jones said, he pleaded the Fifth Amendment 100 times and had been instructed to do so by his counsel. On the 5th of August 2022, during a defamation trial in Texas brought by Sandy Hook school shooting parents against Jones, a lawyer for the plaintiffs revealed that Jones's lawyer had inadvertently sent him two years of texts from Jones's phone. On the 8th of August, the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack received those text messages; they had requested the information since Jones had helped organize a rally before the Capitol attack. Jones's lawyer, Norm Pattis, had also released confidential discovery items including Sandy Hook plaintiffs' medical records, and consequently, in January 2023, a judge suspended his law license. At the time of his license suspension, Pattis was part of the legal team defending Proud Boys leader Joseph Biggs against charges of seditious conspiracy. On the 12th of September 2023, Owen Shroyer, an InfoWars co-host who accompanied Jones to the capital on the 6th of January 2021, was sentenced to thirty days in prison for violating an active order to stay away from the Capitol grounds. He had received the order after previously being arrested for causing a disturbance in another governmental building.
The Billion Dollar Verdict
Jones has 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. Jones faced numerous defamation lawsuits due to these lies. On the 16th of April 2018, Leonard Pozner and Veronique De La Rosa, parents of victim Noah Pozner, filed a defamation suit against Jones, Infowars and Free Speech Systems in Travis County, Texas. Pozner, who has been forced to move several times to avoid harassment and death threats, was accused by Jones of being a crisis actor. On the 16th of April 2018, Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, parents of victim Jesse Lewis, filed a defamation suit against Jones, Infowars and Free Speech Systems in Travis County, Texas. Jones was found to be in contempt of court even before the trial started as a result of his failure to produce witnesses and materials relevant to the procedures. Consequently, Jones and Infowars were fined a total of 126,000 in October and December 2019. On the 22nd of January 2021, the Texas Supreme Court threw out an appeal for dismissal by Jones of four defamation lawsuits from families of Sandy Hook victims. The court allowed the judgments of two lower courts to stand without comment, allowing the lawsuits to continue. On the 27th of September 2021, a district judge in Texas issued three default judgments against Jones, requiring him to pay all damages in two lawsuits. These rulings came after Jones repeatedly failed to hand over documents and evidence as ordered by the court, which the judge characterized as flagrant bad faith and callous disregard for the responsibilities of discovery under the rules. The jury trial began in Texas on the 25th of July 2022, where the plaintiffs' attorney said they would seek 150 million from the jury. Heslin testified on the 2nd of August that conspiracy theorists, fueled by Jones's statements, fired into his house and car and subjected him and his family to harassment. He said Jones's failure to attend court during his testimony was a cowardly act. While Heslin was testifying, Jones was broadcasting his show, calling Heslin slow and manipulated by some very bad people. Jones subsequently arrived at court to present his testimony, first sitting through that of Jesse's mother Scarlett Lewis. Lewis said, Alex, I want you to hear this. We're more polarized than ever as a country. Some of that is because of you. She asked Jones, Do you think I'm an actor? Jones responded, No, I don't think you're an actor. As the only person testifying in his defense, Jones admitted the Sandy Hook shooting was 100 percent real, and agreed with his own attorney that it was absolutely irresponsible to push falsehoods about the shooting and its victims. Jones testified that he had complied with court orders in defamation suits and is bankrupt. On the 3rd of August, cross-examination revealed that Jones had not fully complied with court orders to provide text messages and emails for pretrial evidence gathering. Judge Maya Guerra Gamble of Travis County District Court admonished him for lying under oath, as his failure to comply with court orders was the reason he lost the defamation suits, and that bankruptcy proceedings had yet to be adjudicated. Gamble said, You're under oath. That means things must actually be true when you say them. After the judge left the courtroom, Jones said Lewis and Heslin were being controlled. While the jury deliberated the amount of compensatory damages, Jones was claiming on his radio show that the proceedings were an incredible spectacle backed by globalists trying to shut him down. On the 4th of August 2022, the jury ordered Jones pay Heslin and Lewis 4.1 million in compensatory damages, and the following day, he was ordered to pay an additional 45.2 million in punitive damages. On the 22nd of November 2022, a judge ruled that Jones must pay the full amount of the punitive damages, even though this amount exceeds a cap under Texas law. Jones's attorneys had estimated the punitive damages award would be reduced to 1.5 million, while the plaintiffs' attorneys had expected it to be reduced to 4.5 million. On the 25th of April 2023, Judge Gamble ordered Jones's attorney, Andino Reynal, to pay 97,169 to Heslin and Lewis for his bad-faith attempts to delay the trial, with a contingency fee of 55,000 should Reynal appeal and lose, and 61,600 if he appeals to the Texas Supreme Court and loses. On the 26th of June 2018, seven families of victims and an FBI agent who responded to the attack filed a defamation lawsuit in Connecticut Superior Court against Jones, Infowars, Free Speech Systems, Infowars Health and others for spreading false claims, resulting in the harassment, stalking and threatening of the plaintiffs. By February 2019, the plaintiffs won a series of court rulings requiring Jones to testify under oath. Jones was later ordered to undergo a sworn deposition, along with three other defendants related to the operation of Infowars. He was also ordered to turn over internal business documents related to Infowars. In this deposition in the last week of March 2019, Jones acknowledged the deaths were real, stating he had almost like a form of psychosis, where he basically thought everything was staged. On the 25th of March 2019, Jeremy Richman, one of the plaintiffs, whose daughter Avielle was killed, committed suicide. Jones, through his lawyer, offered condolences to Richman's family, but later that day on his show suggested that Richman had been murdered and that his death had something to do with special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election interference. On the 5th of April 2021, the Supreme Court of the United States declined to hear an appeal by Jones against a court sanction in the lawsuit. On the 15th of November 2021, the judge found Jones liable by default for defamation, for willful non-compliance in failing to turn over documents to the families in line with court orders. On the 29th of March 2022, Jones offered a settlement of 120,000 to each of the thirteen people involved in the lawsuits, which was quickly rejected. On the 2nd of June 2022, Jones's attorneys asked the judge to drop them from the case. The judge said she had heard this before, citing thirteen times in the past four years when Jones's attorneys asked to replace each other or be dropped from the case. She ordered them to continue to represent Jones until she ruled on the motion on the 15th of June. On the 12th of October 2022, the jury awarded 965 million to be shared by 15 plaintiffs (eight families and one first responder). The plaintiffs' individual awards ranged from 28.8 million to 120 million. During the trial, the families testified that they had been threatened and harassed over years due to Jones's falsehoods. Jones reacted live to the verdict on his show, mocking it, Do these people actually think they're getting any money? He implored his viewers to donate to him to appeal, and also declared that the jury's verdict was an attempt to scare us away from questioning school shootings such as the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting and the Robb Elementary School shooting, but we're not going to stop. 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. The judge also issued an order that Jones was not to transfer, encumber, dispose or move his assets out of the United States until further order of the court. Jones moved for a new trial, but on the 22nd of December 2022, the judge denied his request. By the end of the summer of 2023, Jones had paid nothing to the families. On the 6th of December 2024, the Connecticut Appellate Court reduced the total Jones owed to about 1.2 billion. It did this by affirming the jury's 965 million verdict while saying that Jones would not have to pay the 150 million in punitive damages that the lower court had awarded the plaintiffs. Jones sought to appeal to the state's Supreme Court, but on the 8th of April 2025 it declined to hear his appeal. On the 24th of July 2018, William Sherlach, husband of victim and school psychologist Mary Sherlach, filed a defamation lawsuit in Connecticut Superior Court against Jones, Infowars, Free Speech Systems and Infowars Health. Sherlach's lawsuit was consolidated into the Lafferty et al. vs. Jones lawsuit for the Connecticut trial. On the 6th of April 2022, according to the Associated Press and The Daily Beast, a lawsuit was filed in Austin, Texas, by some of the Sandy Hook families accusing Jones of hiding assets worth millions of dollars after he began being sued for defamation by the families of Sandy Hook victims. The suit claims Jones conspired to divert his assets to shell companies owned by insiders like his parents, his children, and himself. The lawsuit alleges Jones drew 18 million from the Infowars company beginning in 2018 and accuses Jones of claiming a dubious 54 million debt at about the same time to another company alleged by the lawsuit to be also owned by Jones. Norm Pattis, an attorney for Jones, said the lawsuit was ridiculous and denied that there had been any attempt to conceal assets. On the 17th of April 2022, three companies owned by Jones filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, suspending further civil litigation claims, as the families had sued Jones as well as his companies. The three companies affected were InfoW, Prison Planet TV, and IWHealth. The court filings estimated InfoWars assets at between 0 and 50,000, but its liabilities were stated as being between 1 million and 10 million. Regarding why Jones did not personally file for bankruptcy, his representative stated, It would ruin his name and harm his ability to sell merchandise and Putting him in bankruptcy would harm his trademark value in terms of cashflow. A lawyer for the families involved in a Connecticut lawsuit against Jones responded, Alex Jones is just delaying the inevitable: a public trial in which he will be held accountable for his profit-driven campaign of lies against the Sandy Hook families who have brought this lawsuit. On the 10th of June 2022, a federal judge in Texas dismissed the bankruptcy protection case after Jones and the families agreed that the three companies would be dropped from the defamation lawsuits against Jones, allowing them to continue in Texas and Connecticut. On the 29th of July 2022, the parent company of InfoWars, Free Speech Systems, LLC, filed for bankruptcy. In response to the Connecticut legal settlement made against him, Jones had previously claimed assets of 6.2 million in January 2022. On the 2nd of December 2022, Jones filed for Chapter 11 personal bankruptcy in the Southern District of Texas, claiming that his assets were between 1 million and 10 million, while his debts were between 1 billion and 10 billion. He also claimed that he had 50 to 99 creditors, and in February 2023, that the Department of Justice intended to seize his pet cat, valued at 2,000, to pay debts owed to the Sandy Hook families. On the 19th of October 2023, a Texas bankruptcy judge ruled that Jones cannot rely on bankruptcy protection to avoid paying the 1.5 billion he owes to the Sandy Hook families as a result of the Connecticut lawsuit. It remained unclear whether he would be able to reduce the amount of punitive damages in the Texas case. In November 2023, the Sandy Hook families offered a settlement in which Jones would pay 85 million over 10 years, about 6 percent of what he had been court-ordered to pay. The following month, Jones countered with an offer of 55 million over 10 years. In February 2024, Jones's general unsecured creditors voted in favor of a Chapter 11 plan that would liquidate and redistribute his assets. Appearing emotional and defiant, on the 1st of June 2024, Jones said on his program, At the end of the day, we're going to beat these people. I'm not trying to be dramatic here, but it's been a hard fight. These people hate our children. The next day, the families filed an emergency motion in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Houston, asking the judge to liquidate Alex Jones's company rather than allow him to reorganize it. The court filing said Jones has failed to demonstrate any hope of beginning to satisfy their claims. On the 6th of June, Jones's attorneys filed a motion to convert his bankruptcy to Chapter 7 status, which would lead to liquidation of his personal assets, including his stake in InfoWars, which was agreed to by the plaintiffs the following day. On the 14th of June, the judge approved the Chapter 7 liquidation. On the 24th of June, the court-appointed trustee public revealed that he planned to shut down InfoWars. On the 24th of September, the judge approved the sale of Free Speech Systems, the parent company of InfoWars. The auction was scheduled for the 13th of November. 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. With the Onion reportedly renewing its efforts in Texas state court to acquire InfoWars, Jones asked the court on the 9th of October to halt proceedings. On the 14th of October 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal from Jones, leaving the 1.4 billion judgment in place. This appeal was separate from his appeal in Texas of a 49 million defamation judgment also related to a Sandy Hook victim.