Public opinion and media debates around Alex Jones—discover key moments of controversy.
Alex Jones is an American far-right radio host and conspiracy theorist. He hosts The Alex Jones Show and founded Infowars and Banned.Video, platforms known for promoting conspiracy theories and fake news. He gained notoriety for his controversial and often unfounded claims.
Following the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995, Alex Jones began accusing the federal government of causing it, claiming it was not the responsibility of Timothy McVeigh and his associate Terry Nichols.
In 1998, Alex Jones was removed from a George W. Bush rally at Bayport Industrial District, Texas after interrupting Bush's speech to demand the abolition of the Federal Reserve and Council on Foreign Relations.
In April 1999, in the aftermath of the Columbine High School massacre, Alex Jones claimed that the U.S. government had "perpetrated" the shootings and that the gunmen Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, as well as the murders, were "100 percent false flag."
On July 15, 2000, Alex Jones infiltrated the Bohemian Grove Cremation of Care, alleging it was a planning event of the New World Order involving child sacrifice.
In July 2000, a group of Austin Community Access Center (ACAC) radio hosts claimed that Alex Jones had used legal proceedings and ACAC policy to intimidate them or try to get their broadcasts removed.
On June 8, 2006, Alex Jones was stopped and detained at the Ottawa airport by Canadian authorities while on his way to cover a Bilderberg Group meeting. His passport, camera equipment, and most of his belongings were confiscated, but he was later allowed to enter Canada legally.
On September 8, 2007, Alex Jones was arrested while protesting in New York City for operating a megaphone without a permit after his group crashed a live television show featuring Geraldo Rivera.
In 2009, Alex Jones berated his then wife, Kelly, in an audio clip that was later obtained by the Daily Mail.
In 2009, Alex Jones claimed that a scheme in Hardin, Montana, involving a vacant prison was part of a FEMA plot to detain US citizens in concentration camps, linking it to the New World Order conspiracy theory.
In 2010, Alex Jones claimed that the increasing number of gay people was due to "a chemical warfare operation" designed to encourage homosexuality with chemicals to reduce the birth rate, referencing government documents.
In 2010, Alex Jones produced and directed the film Police State 4: The Rise of FEMA, claiming it proved the existence of secret FEMA camps and that the military-industrial complex was transforming the US into a giant prison camp.
In 2011, Alex Jones faced criticism after it was reported that Jared Lee Loughner, the perpetrator of the 2011 Tucson shooting, was a fan of the 9/11 conspiracy film Loose Change, of which Jones was an executive producer.
In 2012, Alex Jones linked to a story titled "List of All FEMA Concentration Camps in America Revealed" from the German UFO conspiracy website Disclose.tv.
In January 2013, Alex Jones was invited to speak on Piers Morgan's CNN show after Jones promoted an online petition to deport Morgan for supporting gun control. During the debate, Jones stated that "1776 will commence again if you try to take our firearms" in reference to potential government gun control measures. Jones also mentioned owning around 50 firearms.
On June 9, 2013, Alex Jones appeared on BBC's Sunday Politics, discussing conspiracy theories about the Bilderberg Group with Andrew Neil and David Aaronovitch. The interview ended abruptly after Jones became disruptive, with Neil calling him "an idiot".
In a November 2013 interview with New York magazine, Alex Jones stated that mass shootings in the United States were suspicious and used to create guilt among gun owners, thereby curtailing individual liberties.
In a 2013 interview on YouTube, Alex Jones blamed "globalists" for promoting the breakdown of the family through same-sex marriage to undermine allegiance and get rid of God, claiming it involved breaking the rights of an ancient program of marriage.
In 2015, Alex Jones ran a campaign attacking former president Bill Clinton, designing a T-shirt and gate-crashing The Young Turks set at the RNC. InfoWars began selling "Hillary for Prison" T-shirts.
In April 2017, Alex Jones was criticized for claiming that the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack in Syria was a hoax and a false flag. Jones suggested the attack was potentially carried out by the White Helmets, which he alleged was an Al-Qaeda-affiliated group financed by George Soros.
On June 16, 2017, Vox covered Alex Jones's claim that the introduction of Julia, an autistic Muppet on Sesame Street, was "designed to normalize autism, a disorder caused by vaccines".
In August 2017, Californian medical company Labdoor, Inc reported on tests applied to six of Alex Jones's dietary supplement products.
On November 20, 2017, The New Yorker quoted Alex Jones claiming InfoWars was "defending people's right to not be forcibly infected with vaccines".
During Alex Jones's 2017 custody trial, Alissa Sherry, the case manager for his family therapy sessions, testified that he had been diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder.
In 2017, Kelly sought sole or joint custody of their children due to her ex-husband's behavior. She asserted that "he's not a stable person" and she was "concerned that he is engaged in felonious behavior, threatening a member of Congress [Adam Schiff]".
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 his show.
Research commissioned in 2017 by the Center for Environmental Health (CEH) determined that two products sold by Alex Jones contained potentially dangerous levels of the heavy metal lead.
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".
On April 2, 2018, Marcel Fontaine sued Alex Jones after InfoWars falsely identified him as the gunman and posted photos of him in several versions of an article on the InfoWars website about the massacre. The lawsuit was filed in Texas court naming Jones, InfoWars, parent company Free Speech Systems, LLC and Infowars employee Kit Daniels as defendants.
In April 2018, Alex Jones publicly criticized Donald Trump during a livestream after Trump announced a military strike against Syria. Jones mentioned that Trump had not contacted him in the previous six months.
On July 24, 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 July 27, 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 August 3, 2018, Stitcher Radio removed all of his podcasts, citing harassment.
On August 6, 2018, Facebook, Apple, YouTube, and Spotify removed all content by Alex Jones and InfoWars for policy violations, citing hate speech and attempts to circumvent suspensions. YouTube removed channels like The Alex Jones Channel, Facebook removed four pages, and Apple removed all podcasts associated with Jones from iTunes.
On August 13, 2018, Vimeo removed all of Alex Jones's videos due to "prohibitions on discriminatory and hateful content".
In August 2018, Alex Jones's accounts were removed from Pinterest, Mailchimp and LinkedIn. Jones also retained active accounts on Instagram, Google+ and Twitter. He tweeted a Periscope video calling on others to get their "battle rifles" ready, which resulted in Twitter suspending his account for a week in August 2018.
In 2018, Alex Jones allegedly started drawing $18 million from the Infowars company and claimed a "dubious" $54 million debt to another company allegedly owned by him, according to a lawsuit filed by Sandy Hook families.
In 2018, Alex Jones spread discredited conspiracy theories about the Parkland high school shooting, stating survivor David Hogg was a crisis actor.
In 2018, Alex Jones threatened to confront drag performers with torches "like the villagers in the night".
In January 2019, Alex Jones expressed displeasure over his relationship with Trump in a leaked interview, stating he regretted meeting him. The interview was released by the Southern Poverty Law Center in March 2021.
In February 2019, the plaintiffs in the defamation lawsuits against Alex Jones won a series of court rulings requiring Jones to testify under oath.
During a deposition in March 2019, Alex Jones acknowledged that the Sandy Hook deaths were real, stating he had "almost like a form of psychosis" and thought everything was staged.
On March 25, 2019, Jeremy Richman, one of the plaintiffs in the Sandy Hook defamation lawsuits against Alex Jones, committed suicide. Jones offered condolences but later suggested on his show that Richman was murdered and linked his death to the Robert Mueller investigation.
In April 2019, Alex Jones briefly moved to Dlive, but was suspended for violating community guidelines.
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% retail markup as of September 2019.
In December 2019, Alex Jones and Infowars were fined a total of $126,000 for contempt of court due to his failure to produce witnesses and materials relevant to the procedures.
In 2019, Alex Jones suspected Erika Wulff of cheating on him and instructed his security employee to monitor her.
On March 12, 2020, Alex Jones was issued a cease and desist from the Attorney General of New York, after he claimed that products he sold, including colloidal silver toothpaste, were an effective treatment for COVID-19.
On April 9, 2020, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sent Alex Jones a letter warning that the federal government might seize products he was marketing for COVID-19 or fine him if he continued to sell them.
In April 2020, a state district judge denied an emergency motion by Kelly to secure custody of their daughters for the next two weeks after Alex Jones led a rally at the Capitol, where he was mobbed by supporters and called COVID-19 a hoax.
In October 2020, Joe Rogan attracted controversy for hosting Alex Jones on his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience. The episode was made available on YouTube and Spotify, leading to backlash for giving Jones a platform to spread misinformation.
In 2020, Alex Jones supported Donald Trump during his re-election campaign and called for demonstrations based on the premise that the election had been "rigged" against Trump.
In 2020, Alex Jones supported the attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election.
On January 6, 2021, Alex Jones spoke at a rally in Lafayette Square Park supporting Donald Trump, which preceded the attack on the US Capitol.
On January 22, 2021, the Texas Supreme Court threw out an appeal for dismissal by Alex Jones of four defamation lawsuits from families of Sandy Hook victims, allowing the lawsuits to continue.
In February 2021, The Washington Post reported that the FBI was investigating Alex Jones's role in influencing the participation of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers in the January 6 Capitol incursion. Jones had previously hosted leaders of these groups on his programs.
In March 2021, The Southern Poverty Law Center released a leaked interview of Alex Jones from January 2019 expressing displeasure over his relationship with Donald Trump.
On April 5, 2021, the Supreme Court of the United States declined to hear an appeal by Alex Jones against a court sanction in the Sandy Hook defamation lawsuit.
After Donald Trump recommended people get vaccinated against COVID-19 at an August 2021 rally, Alex Jones criticized Trump, calling him either a liar or "not that bright" and "a dumbass".
On September 27, 2021, a district judge in Texas issued three default judgments against Alex Jones for repeatedly failing to hand over documents and evidence as ordered by the court in the Sandy Hook defamation lawsuits.
On November 15, 2021, the judge found Alex Jones liable by default for defamation due to his "willful non-compliance" in failing to turn over documents to the Sandy Hook families as required by court orders.
On November 22, 2021, Alex Jones was subpoenaed by the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack for testimony and documents.
In 2021, Alex Jones partially funded and raised funds for the January 6 Trump rally in Washington, D.C., which preceded the United States Capitol attack. He helped raise at least $650,000 from Julie Fancelli to finance the rally.
In January 2022, Alex Jones claimed assets of $6.2 million in response to the Connecticut legal settlement made against him.
On January 24, 2022, Alex Jones had a virtual meeting with the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack, during which he pleaded the Fifth Amendment approximately 100 times on the advice of his counsel.
On March 29, 2022, Alex Jones offered a settlement of $120,000 to each of the thirteen people involved in the Sandy Hook defamation lawsuits, but the offer was quickly rejected.
On April 6, 2022, some of the Sandy Hook families filed a lawsuit in Austin, Texas, accusing Alex Jones of hiding assets worth millions of dollars after he began being sued for defamation.
In April 2022, Alex Jones denied Russian war crimes by accusing Ukrainians of staging the Bucha massacre.
On April 17, 2022, three companies owned by Alex Jones, including InfoW, Prison Planet TV, and IWHealth, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, suspending civil litigation claims from the Sandy Hook families.
On May 24, 2022, during an episode of his show InfoWars, Alex Jones commented on the Robb Elementary School shooting, predicting a rise in mass shootings before elections, describing it as "very opportunistic".
On June 2, 2022, Alex Jones's attorneys asked the judge to drop them from the Sandy Hook defamation case, a request that the judge noted had been made multiple times in the past.
On June 10, 2022, a federal judge in Texas dismissed the bankruptcy protection case after Alex Jones and the families agreed that three companies would be dropped from the defamation lawsuits against Jones, allowing them to continue in Texas and Connecticut.
On July 7, 2022, the day the Georgia Guidestones were dynamited, Marjorie Taylor Greene, appearing as a guest on Alex Jones' show, criticized the texts inscribed on the monument, viewing them as advocating for "population control". Jones admitted to enjoying the destruction of the monument.
The jury trial for the Sandy Hook defamation case against Alex Jones began in Texas on July 25, 2022. The plaintiffs' attorney stated that they would seek $150 million in damages.
On July 29, 2022, the parent company of InfoWars, Free Speech Systems, LLC, filed for bankruptcy.
On August 4, 2022, the jury ordered Alex Jones to pay Heslin and Lewis $4.1 million in compensatory damages for his false claims about the Sandy Hook shooting.
On August 5, 2022, during a defamation trial in Texas, a lawyer for the Sandy Hook parents revealed that Jones's lawyer had inadvertently sent him two years of texts from Jones's phone.
In September 2022, a Rolling Stone story reported that Alex Jones may have spied on Erika Wulff in 2019.
On October 12, 2022, the jury awarded $965 million to be shared by 15 plaintiffs in the Sandy Hook defamation lawsuit against Alex Jones. Jones reacted to the verdict live on his show, mocking it and asking viewers to donate to him for an "appeal".
In October 2022, juries in Connecticut and Texas awarded a total of $1.487 billion in damages from Alex Jones to a first responder and families of Sandy Hook victims due to his defamatory falsehoods about the shooting.
On November 10, 2022, the judge awarded the plaintiffs in the Sandy Hook defamation case an additional $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".
In November 2022, after Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter, several previously banned accounts were reinstated, but Alex Jones was not among them. Musk stated that Jones "would use the deaths of children for gain, politics or fame" and would not be unbanned.
On November 22, 2022, a judge ruled that Alex Jones must pay the full amount of punitive damages awarded in the Sandy Hook defamation case, even though the amount exceeded a cap under Texas law.
On December 22, 2022, the judge denied Alex Jones's motion for a new trial in the Sandy Hook defamation case.
In January 2023, Norm Pattis, Alex Jones's lawyer, had his law license suspended after releasing confidential discovery items, including Sandy Hook plaintiffs' medical records.
In February 2023, the Department of Justice intended to seize Alex Jones's pet cat, valued at $2,000, to pay debts owed to the Sandy Hook families.
In February 2023, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) reported on text messages that appeared to corroborate a September 2022 Rolling Stone story reporting that Alex Jones may have spied on Erika Wulff in 2019. In the texts reviewed by the SPLC, Jones told his security employee to monitor Wulff, expressing concern that she was cheating on him.
In March 2023, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported on Alex Jones's leaked texts from his Sandy Hook defamation trial, which 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.
On April 25, 2023, Judge Gamble ordered Alex Jones's attorney, Andino Reynal, to pay $97,169 to Heslin and Lewis for his bad-faith attempts to delay the Sandy Hook defamation trial.
In May 2023, Alex Jones guest hosted Steven Crowder's podcast Louder with Crowder. Crowder's channel was subsequently suspended by YouTube for facilitating ban evasion by Jones.
On September 12, 2023, Owen Shroyer, an InfoWars co-host who accompanied Jones to the capital on January 6, 2021, was sentenced to thirty days in prison for violating an order to stay away from the Capitol grounds.
On October 19, 2023, a Texas bankruptcy judge ruled that Alex 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 Alex Jones would pay $85 million over 10 years (about 6 percent of what he had been court-ordered to pay). The offer was filed within Jones's personal bankruptcy case.
In 2023, after a 2009 audioclip of Alex Jones berating his then wife was obtained by the Daily Mail, Kelly claimed that Jones was "a total racist" regarding her Jewish heritage, claiming that her genes were "flawed".
In 2023, leaked texts from Alex Jones's phone revealed that he had created the website National File to evade social media bans on Infowars content.
In February 2024, Alex Jones's general unsecured creditors (mostly Sandy Hook families) voted in favor of a Chapter 11 plan that would liquidate and redistribute his assets.
On June 1, 2024, appearing emotional and defiant, Alex 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".
On December 6, 2024, the Connecticut Appellate Court reduced the total Alex Jones owed in the Sandy Hook defamation case to about $1.2 billion, affirming the jury's verdict but removing punitive damages.
On April 8, 2025, the Connecticut Supreme Court declined to hear Alex Jones's appeal in the Sandy Hook defamation case.
On August 13, 2025, Texas Judge Maya Guerra Gamble ordered Infowars assets to be turned over to a state receiver to be sold to pay the families.
In September 2025, after YouTube announced reinstatement opportunities for channels suspended for political content, Alex Jones created a new channel on YouTube. The channel was suspended hours after creation, as the reinstatement program had not yet started.
On October 14, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal from Alex Jones, leaving the $1.4 billion judgment in place. This was separate from his Texas appeal of a $49 million defamation judgment.
In April 2026, during the 2026 Iran War, Alex Jones, along with other conservatives, called for Donald Trump to be removed from office using the Twenty-fifth Amendment after Trump threatened Iran on social media.
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