Ran for state representative of Texas in House District 48 which covers Austin, Texas, as a Republican. Jones ran to 'be a watchdog on the inside', but terminated his campaign after polls showed he had little chance of winning the Republican nomination.
Has been banned on all major social media platforms including YouTube, Twitter and Facebook. In December 2023, Twitter CEO Elon Musk reinstated Jones's account as part of his rebranding of the platform as "X," in a move that brought much criticism.
Was first as a talk radio host in Austin, Texas, USA when the station was
bought by a conglomerate. Alex Jones has since joined a non-conglomerate owned radio network called GCN.
A jury in Connecticut ordered him to pay $965 million in damages to the families of eight Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims and a first responder. [Oct 2022].