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Alexander Emric (or Emerick) Jones (born February 11, 1974)^[1][2] is an American radio show host and far-right conspiracy theorist.^{[3][4][5][6][7][8]} He hosts The Alex Jones Show from Austin, Texas, which airs on the Genesis Communications Network^[9] across the United States and online.^[10] Jones runs a website, InfoWars, based on conspiracy theories and fake news,^[11][12][13] and the websites NewsWars and PrisonPlanet.

Jones began his career in the 1990s running a live public-access cable television program, later switching to radio. He has been at the center of many controversies: he promoted conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting.^[14] In other conspiracy theories, Jones has accused the US government of planning the Oklahoma City bombing,^[15] the September 11 attacks,^[16] and falsifying details regarding the 1969 Moon landing.^[17] He has claimed that several governments and big businesses have colluded to create a “New World Order” through “manufactured economic crises, sophisticated surveillance tech and—above all—inside-job terror attacks that fuel exploitable hysteria”.^[18] He aggressively opposed gun control in a debate with Piers Morgan.^[19][16]

Jones has described himself as a conservative, paleoconservative and libertarian, terms he uses interchangeably.^[20][21] Others describe him as conservative, right-wing, alt-right,^[22] and far-right.^[23][24] New York magazine has described Jones as “America’s leading conspiracy theorist”,^[25] and the Southern Poverty Law Center describes him as “the most prolific conspiracy theorist in contemporary America”.^[26] Asked about such labels, Jones said he is “proud to be listed as a thought criminal against Big Brother“.^[25]