Alex Jones Biography
Alex Jones is a notable conspiracy theorist and host of a far-right and alt-right radio show in the United States. From Austin, Texas, he broadcasts The Alex Jones Show, and his website InfoWars promotes conspiracy theories and fake news.
How old is Alex Jones? – Age
He is 49 years old as of 11 February 2023. He was born in 1974 in Dallas, Texas, United States. His real name is Alexander Emerick Jones.
Alex Jones Family – Education
Jones grew up in the Rockwall suburbs. His father worked as a dentist, and his mother was a housewife. He claims to be of Irish, German, Welsh, English, and Comanche ancestry. Jones’ family relocated to Austin during his sophomore year in high school. He graduated in 1993 from Anderson High School, where he played football. Jones attended Austin Community College for a short time after graduating before dropping out.
Alex Jones Wife
Jones and his ex-wife Kelly Jones have three children. In March 2015, the couple divorced. Due to her ex-husband’s actions, Kelly requested sole or joint custody of their children in 2017. His lawyers responded by alleging he was a “performance artist” and claiming he was playing a character. Rex Jones, his son, has worked for InfoWars. Jones married Erika Wulff Jones in 2017, and the couple had a child.
Alex Jones Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $7 million.
Alex Jones Car Attack
Brennan Gilmore, who released a video of a car hitting counter-protesters at the 2017 Unite the Right rally, filed a lawsuit against Jones and six others in March 2018. Jones claimed in the lawsuit that Gilmore was part of a false flag operation carried out by disgruntled government “deep state” workers promoting a coup against Trump. Gilmore claimed he received death threats from members of Jones’ audience. Gilmore obtained an admission of culpability from Jones in March 2022.
Alex Jones Podcast
Jones launched Alex Jones Live, a subscription-based podcast, in 2023. It was halted shortly after it began due to issues related to his Sandy Hook case. Stitcher Radio removed all of his programs on August 3, 2018, alleging harassment. Jones appeared as a guest on Steven Crowder’s podcast Louder with Crowder in May 2023. YouTube later terminated Crowder’s channel for assisting Jones’ ban evasion.
Alex Jones Show
Jones began hosting his own show via an Internet connection from his home after being fired from KJFK-FM. In July 2000, a group of Austin Community Access Center (ACAC) radio hosts claimed that Jones had attempted to intimidate them or remove their broadcasts by using ACAC policy and legal proceedings. In 2001, Jones’ public broadcast was partnered on roughly 100 stations.
Jones stated on his radio show that there was a “98 percent chance this was a government-orchestrated controlled bombing” on the day of the 9/11 attacks. He started spreading the conspiracy theory that the attack was orchestrated by the Bush administration. Will Bunch, a columnist, claims that as a result, Jones’s program was removed from several stations. Jones rose to prominence as an advocate for the “9/11 truther” cause. The show had approximately two million weekly listeners in 2010. As per Alexander Zaitchik of Drifter magazine, in 2011 Jones had a bigger on-line crowd than Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh joined. The Genesis Communications Network began syndicating The Alex Jones Show to more than 100 AM and FM radio stations across the United States in 2020.
As per writer Will Pack, a senior individual at Media Matters for America, the show has a segment that inclines more towards more youthful audience members than do other moderate intellectuals, because of Jones’ “exceptionally conspiratorial tone and Web-situated approach”. Jones also “feed[s] on the deepest paranoia,” according to Bunch.
In November 2016, Jones stated to The Washington Post that his video streams had surpassed 80 million viewers in a single month and that his radio show, which was at the time syndicated to 129 stations, had a daily audience of five million listeners.
Alex Jones InfoWars
Jones is the publisher and director of the InfoWars website, which promotes conspiracy theories. InfoWars was created in 1999 by Alex Jones and Kelly Jones (his then-wife), initially as a mail-order shop for the sale of their conspiracy-oriented videos. The InfoWars website garnered around 10 million views in November 2016, putting it on par with mainstream news websites such as The Economist and Newsweek. PrisonPlanet.com is another of Jones’s websites.
