Alex Jones

Alex Jones is the founder and former host of Infowars, a far-right media platform known for promoting elaborate conspiracy theories. Over two decades, Jones claimed the 9/11 attacks were an inside job, that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax with crisis actors, that the U.S. government was secretly controlling the weather, and that vaccines cause autism. His Sandy Hook hoax propaganda led to years of harassment of grieving parents, resulting in defamation lawsuits that cost him over $1.5 billion in judgments.

In 2024, Jones' ownership stake in Infowars was ordered to be sold to help pay the Sandy Hook families. The Onion, a satirical news outlet, won a court-mandated auction for Infowars' parent company, backed by the Sandy Hook families. As of 2025-2026, the legal battle over control of Infowars continues through the courts, but Jones no longer controls the platform he built. Jones represents the extreme end of bad faith media — where the line between entertainment, political manipulation, and profiting from human tragedy has been completely erased.