====== Alex Jones ======

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**Alexander Emerick Jones** is an American radio, television and internet host based in [[united_states_of_america:Texas:Austin]], [[United_states_of_america:Texas]].

===== Film and TV =====

==== Alex's War ====

A documentary about Jones titled //[[Alex's War]]// was released on July 29, 2022, directed by [[Alex Lee Moyer]].((Menta, A. (2022, July 28). //Is “Alex’s War” Streaming on HBO Max or Netflix?// Decider. https://web.archive.org/web/20220729214014/https://decider.com/2022/07/28/alex-jones-documentary-alexs-war-watch/)) While Jones is the subject of the film, he did not take part in its production.

===== Legal challenges =====

==== Sandy Hook school shooting defamation case ====

Jones was accused of [[defamation]] for allegedly lying to his [[Infowars]] audience about the events of the 2012 [[Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting]]. The plaintiffs - parents of several of the children killed in the incident - allege that Jones "lied and attacked the parents of murdered children" while describing the shooting as a hoax.((Associated Press in Austin. (2022, July 26). //Sandy Hook defamation jury told of Alex Jones’s “massive campaign of lies.”// The Guardian. https://web.archive.org/web/20220729213123/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/26/alex-jones-defamation-trial-sandy-hook-shooting)) He was further accused of failing to respond to court orders and turn over documents, leading to courts in Texas and [[united_states_of_america:Connecticut]] to issue default judgements against him, suspending his right to a jury trial.((Vertuno, J. (2022, July 29). //Sympathetic portrayal of Alex Jones rebuked as “hypocrisy.”// CTV News. https://web.archive.org/web/20220729213530/https://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/sympathetic-portrayal-of-alex-jones-rebuked-as-hypocrisy-1.6007345))

===== External links =====

  * [[https://wiki.whiteroseintelligence.com/en/Alex-Jones|White Rose Wiki]]