Alex Jones: The Text Messages (SPLC)

[Nevilledog]

About the Alex Jones Texts

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023/02/01/about-alex-jones-texts

Infowars’ Alex Jones Says He Lives ‘in Hell,’ Texts Show

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023/02/01/infowars-alex-jones-says-he-lives-hell-texts-show

Alex Jones described himself as living “in hell,” being part of “a sick joke,” and sinking down into a “black hole” in previously private text messages given to Hatewatch.

Content warning: This article contains graphic language, including antisemitic and anti-LGBTQ conspiracy theories. It also contains descriptions of sex and suggestions of domestic violence. Reader discretion is advised.

Jones’ life, as revealed in the texts, is overshadowed by a sense of isolation. He appears to chat with almost no one who could be described as a friend, disentangled from his activism or Infowars work. Nearly everyone with whom he corresponds, outside of a few people in his family, connects with Jones through their relationship to Infowars, either as an employee or as another pro-Trump influencer. He sends and receives messages with more than 120 people who fit that description. Jones speaks with over 40 people who provide what could be described as personal services to him, like his personal trainer.

Hatewatch has divided our reporting on the texts into a series. This story is part one, and it focuses on what the messages reveal about Jones’ life without the cover of his performance on Infowars. Hatewatch reached out to Jones for a comment on this investigation by text and email. He did not respond, and appeared to block this Hatewatch reporter's phone number. We will update the story if he decides to provide comment after publication.

“It’s like gravity/A black hole”

Jones writes most openly about the fallout from the Sandy Hook lawsuit in texts to his father, David Jones. David Jones, a 72-year-old dentist from Austin, Texas, is involved in the business of Infowars. He also demonstrates a willingness to connect with the radical right movement of which his son plays such an integral part. (At one point in the texts, Jones shares with his father the contact information of Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes.) On Dec. 18, 2019, Jones sends a flurry of texts expressing fear and describing living in a “black hole.” Although Jones does not specify the impetus for his texts, he sends them around the time that news broke that he would face monetary sanctions as a result of the Sandy Hook litigation for the third time:

Alex Jones to David Jones, 3:01.32 p.m.:
It’s no big deal

Alex Jones to David Jones, 3:01.44 p.m.:
I get notice via media

Alex Jones to David Jones, 3:02.01 p.m.:
So I just need to start shutting down

Alex Jones to David Jones, 3:02.30 p.m.:
I always get my legal news a few weeks late via news

Alex Jones to David Jones, 3:02.39 p.m.:
I just need to love it

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[odins folly]

1. Couple things..

So,
1) Karma is a mother...
2) The text messages read like he was drunk dialing
3) Fuck him.

If that fuckwad dropped off the face of the earth or was absorbed into the void by his own hand tonight, the world would be in a better state than the time before he was gone.

3+) Fuck him.

[Bev54]

2. He is such a whiny little B.